Akseli Gallen-Kallela

The canvas has been laid on board, and is in good condition. There are no signs of retouching visible under ultraviolet light. This work is in overall very good condition, with a clean, strong surface and bright colours, and ready to hang. Held in a simple, gold and burgundy-painted moulded plaster and wood frame.
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The present work depicts a view from the roof of his house in Taos. Of the family's t.mes there between 1924-26, his daughter Kirsti recalled: 'We often sat on the walled roof enjoying the changing light in the surrounding mountains. Some t.mes s the snow sparkled on peaks in the sunshine, somet.mes s the sky was as blue as the ground to Filippo Lippi's Madonnas, yet on another day the clouds floating beneath the peaks cast giant lurking shadows over the slopes.' (quoted in Katsoin Outoja Unia, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Artist and Visionary, Porvoo, 2001, p. 122).