Paul Graf - Children Bathing by a Rocky Shore, 1892Paul Graf (18661903), Swedish Children Bathing by a Rocky Shore, 1892 signed Graf and indistinctly dated 1892oil on canvas mounted on panelunframed 139 175 cm (54. 7 68. 9 in) framed 154 191 cm (60. 6 75. 2 in) Provenance: Private collection, Gothenburg. Condition Report: The painting is in very good condition with bright and clear colors. Seamed canvas. Contact gallery for UV photos. Comparison: Bathing Boys, Skagen Beach (1892), oil on canvas, 77

This painting captures the quiet drama of sunset across open water and low shoreline

“the lyric of painting”—a quintessentially national art form

and functioned as markers of status and cultural identity

was much more versatile than was is commonly assumed

Around 1886–87 he painted Eftermiddagsstämning

Although executed far from Scandinavia

Essay:This expansive coastal landscape by Alfred Bergström presents a luminous and windswept shoreline

The composition draws the eye along a diagonal valley path toward the distant peaks

5)Provenance:A Swedish Private Collection

Schuknecht 1859oil on canvas

and purple to shimmer through the surface

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