Gerda Tiren, An Embrace

Gerda Tiren, An EmbraceA charming turn of the century drawing depicting a loving embrace by Swedish artist, Gerda Tiren (1858 1928). It was almost certainly designed as a book illustration. How do you read the piece? Is it a loving embrace between husband and wife? Or is the gentleman her father? Is she relieved or saddened? The drawing was created in ink with a pencil underdrawing and heightened in watercolour and probably gouache. Its housed within a glazed frame and has

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Size including frame 7½” x 6¾” / 19cm x 17cm

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Note also the composition

a vast sky is thick with rolling clouds

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