Before the Crayfish Party II, Swedish Oil on Canvas by Ingrid Edenberg

A naive oil on canvas “Before the Crayfish Party II” by Swedish artist Ingrid Edenberg, who was from Stockholm and painted this in 1983.

Depicting Stockholm social life told cheerfully, showing a table laid for a crayfish party on a terrace above the water. A platter of crayfish placed on a pink cloth, with dill, green glasses and radishes set around it. Two white chairs and a bench face the table, and a closed orange parasol stands to the left. Behind, a smiling sun face lantern hangs between two striped paper lanterns, above a railing and a cottage lit across the bay.

It comes with two documents, the artist’s typed CV and a 1983 review from Svenska Dagbladet in which Stig Johansson wrote that she paints her Stockholm with a cheerful naive temperament. This is Stockholm social life told exactly that way. Signed Ingrid Edenberg at the lower left.

H: 46cm 18.1" x W: 38cm 15"

About the artist:

Ingrid Edenberg trained under Lennart Rodhe and painted Stockholm and its life throughout her career. She showed ten times at the Stockholmssalongen at Liljevalchs Konsthall, was invited there in 1963 for The Artists’ Stockholm, and showed at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris in 1973. She appears in Folke Holmér’s Stockholm as Seen by Twentieth Century Painters, the city gave her its culture grant twice, and her work is held by Jönköpings Museum and was bought by Statens Konstråd.

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