Thursday 29 June 2023

Bruno Liljefors - part 3

Bruno Liljefors was a Swedish artist widely regarded as one of the most important wildlife painters of the 19th century. His depictions of birds in particular are considered iconic for their groundbreaking combination of Impressionistic brushstrokes and carefully observed realism. Often painting from life, Liljefors kept many live animals in an enclosure at his home to use as models, including foxes, an eagle, and hares. His 1908 painting, Winter Hare, featuring a lifelike rendering of a hare bounding through the snow, is one of his best-known works. Born on May 14, 1860 in Uppsala, Sweden into a poor family, his talent for drawing was recognized by an early age, with local shopkeepers reportedly giving the boy art materials in support. He went on to study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, and later also produced sequential picture narratives, which are seen as examples of the earliest form of Swedish comic books. During the late 1890s, he exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon. He died on December 18, 1939 in Stockholm, Sweden.


For more biographical information see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 & 2 also.

This is part 3 of a 4-part series on the works of Bruno Liljefors:


1913 Autumn Landscape with Partridges
oil on canvas 70.5 x 99.5 cm
National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

1913 Fox stalking wild Ducks
oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm

1913 Three Curlews
oil on canvas 119.5 x 220 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1913 Loons
oil on canvas 101 x 176 cm

1914 Sea Eagle's Nest
oil on canvas 190.5 x 266.7 cm

1915 Fox and Landscape
oil on canvas 65 x 101 cm

1915 Hare in Winter Landscape
oil on canvas 92 x 112 cm

1915 Stretching Swans
oil on canvas 58 x 96 cm

1917 A Flight of Wild Ducks
oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm

1917 Forest Landscape with Fox and Hounds
oil on canvas 66 x 81 cm

1917 Fox and Hounds
oil on canvas 75.5 x 90.5 cm

1917 Fox in an Autumn Landscape
oil on canvas 65.5 x 80.5 cm

1918 Swans
oil on canvas 70.5 x 90.5 cm

before 1920 Sparrows in a Cherry Tree
oil on wood panel 33 x 25 cm
National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

1920 Swans by the Shore
oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm

1920s Geese at Sunset
oil on canvas 65.5 x 101 cm

1921 Autumn Landscape with Hare
oil on canvas 43 x 68 cm

1921 Bean Geese shedding
oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm

1921 Fox in a Winter Landscape
oil on canvas 75 x 100.5 cm

1922 Winter Landscape with Moose
oil on canvas 120 x 161 cm

1923 Calling Capercaillie
oil on canvas 65 x 50 cm

1923 Fox in a Winter Landscape
oil on canvas 50 x 80 cm

1924 Eagle hunting a Hare
oil on canvas 109.5 x 164.5 cm

1924 White-tailed Eagles hunting
oil on canvas 125 x 160 cm

1926 Autumn Landscape with a Winter Hare
oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm

1927 Dusk over Landscape with flying Ducks and a Hunter
oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm

1927 Fox with Prey, Crows in Winter / Spring Landscape
oil on canvas 81 x 116 cm

1928 Eiders at Sunrise
oil on canvas? 58 x 83 cm
Private Collection

1928 Winter Landscape with a Fox
oil on canvas 52 x 75 cm

1929 Fox in a Summer Landscape
oil on canvas 64 x 78 cm

1936 Winter Hare
oil on canvas 38 x 52 cm

1937 At Sea
oil on canvas 49 x 69 cm

1937 Fox Family with Prey
oil on canvas 42 x 68 cm

1937 Winter Landscape with Black Grouse and Grey Hen
oil on canvas 48.5 x 68.5 cm



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