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Portrait of Anna Roslund

Gabriele Munter, 1917

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester
© DACS, London 2007

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.

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Title of artwork, date

Portrait of Anna Roslund, 1917

Date supported

1992

Medium and material

Oil

Dimensions

94 x 68 cm

Grant

10000

Total cost

43000

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