Axel Johansen, Rural Scene With Children Playing

Axel Johansen, Rural Scene With Children PlayingA captivating early 20th century rural scene depicting two children playing before an old ramshackle farmhouse. Its an everyday moment captured with affection so perhaps the artist knew the family. Axel Johansen (1872 1938) was a great colourist and the palette here is crisp and interesting. Note how the girls are deliberately quite distinct against their background, thus providing an immediate focal point. Johansen studied at the Royal Academy in

Westerbeek studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and several of his works are held in museum collections

So perhaps the artist was a follower or worked within his circle

An impressionistic depiction of a rustic old farm building with a thatched roof by Danish artist

It evokes the romanticism of a John Constable and provides a window into a time gone by

has captured the light beautifully as it falls across the scene - with the trees creating rippling reflections in the water

She wears a sumptuous peach dress with an embroidered lace wrap and stands before a beautiful antique tapestry

more impressionistic

Sora’ at Sotheby’s in 2002

6½” x 11½” / 17cm x 29cm

taste was regarded as an important attribute as it helped to shape your own destiny and

The trees are beautifully rendered with broad strokes and a muted palette

trained at the Academy in Dresden under Wilhelm Ferdinand Pauwels (1830-1904) and later at the illustrious Académie Julian in Paris