Nils von Dardel - Marthe [1930]

Nils von Dardel - Marthe [1930], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Nils von Dardel (Bettna, October 25, 1888 – New York City, May 25, 1943) was a Swedish post-impressionist painter. After studying at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, he was one of a group of young artists who went to Paris in around 1910. It was the reputation of Henri Matisse that drew most of them, but Matisse made relatively little impact on von Dardel; instead he was influenced by the Post-Impressionists, the pure colours of the Fauvists, and Japanese woodcuts. He also made some tentative attempts at Cubism in a few cityscapes. Von Dardel led a self-destructive, itinerant and hectic life. Many of his later paintings are portraits of people he met on his travels.

[Mixed media, 62 x 47 cm]