Portrait in Leksand, July, 1946 Still Lifes I think he’d be a

I think he’d be a joy to live with on the wall

Mounted but unframed

I really ought to be offering a best caption prize for this one

This painting has a deckled edge along the top and bottom

Portrait in Leksand, July, 1946 Still Lifes I think he’d be a"This is I believe what historians would call a mid career work by Tgtstrm. A very different portrait to much of his public work, this is a more personal, rather affectionate painting. One can feel the nervousness of youth as she sits in what I assume is her first formal portrait. It could be marking a birthday, an eighteenth, and perhaps the simple necklace is a present. Who knows? A nice gentle period portrait painted in 1946 of a young Swedish