'Woman in Blue Dress' by Bertil Berntsson

'Woman in Blue Dress' by Bertil Berntssonartist: Bertil Berntsson (Swedish 1921 2002) medium: screenprint dimensions: 23 x 44 cm image size (approx) 42 1 2 x 65 1 2 cm framed size signed and numbered 48 100 dated 55 presented in a new hand finished timber frame with archival mat and UV non reflective museum glass AU $880 (approx US $570 530 EUROS 86,500 yen 450 GBP for exact current conversion visit xe. com) ** Was on show and for sale at Danish Red 1214 High Street Armadale VIC now sold

artist: Bertil Berntsson (Swedish 1921-2002)

medium: screenprint

dimensions: 23 x 44 cm image size (approx) / 42 1/2 x 65 1/2 cm framed size
signed and numbered 48/100
dated 55
presented in a new hand finished timber frame with archival mat and UV non-reflective museum glass

AU $880 (approx US $570 / 530 EUROS / 86,500 yen / 450 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)

** Was on show and for sale at Danish Red - 1214 High Street Armadale VIC - now sold

artist bio
Bertil Berntsson was born on 1st January 1921 in Värö. He studied at the Konsthögskolan Valand between 1939 and 1940, the Skånska målarskolan in Malmö between 1945 and 1946 and then in Paris, in 1949, under the French artist André Lhote (1885-1962). Berntsson first exhibited in Varberg in 1939 and participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Stockholm, Malmö and Helsingborg beginning in 1947 and through the 1970s.

Berntsson's works are held in the public collections of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Malmö konstmuseum Ystad konstmuseum, Helsingborgs stadsmuseum, Halmstad Museum, Lund University's Collection and the Archive for Decorative Art in Lund.

Berntsson passed away in 2002, aged 81.