5 February 2020

Frits Thaulow. Thawing Ice, ca. 1887 (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow).


Pastel on canvas: 59.5 х 80 cm. Known as: ‘Winter Landscape’, ‘Thawning Ice’ and ‘Mountain River’. Painted from a spot near Grini farm/ Oslo where the artist was living in 1887. It was an immediate success, and about 11 pastel versions were made. Other versions in private collections and at: Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde Stockholm and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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