Portrait of Anna Roslund

Gabriele Munter (1877 - 1962)

New Walk Museum and Art Gallery

1917

Anna Roslund-Aagard (1891-1941), was the wife of the Danish painter Carl Treor Aagard. She was a writer and musician closely involved with the Scandinavian avant-garde. The expressive power of Munter's treatment of Anna Aagard is enhanced by her feeling for her subject, who is shown seated smoking a pipe, with her left arm thrown back in a posture reflecting both her personality and her frame of mind. The painting is introspective in mood, with a quality of strangeness which seems indicative of Munter's own psychological state, as her long time partner Vassily Kandinsky had just married another woman.

• Medium: oil
• Dimensions: 94 x 68 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £10000 ( Total: £43,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: Sotheby's

Provenance

Anna Aagaard; The Aagaard.

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