In July 2021, at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, Sophie Van der Linden discovered a painting by the Swedish artist Anna Boberg.
On loan from the National Museum in Stockholm, it is an ambitious work dedicated to the massive Store Molla, a painted landscape in the Lofoten Islands.
For the novelist, the pictorial work gives birth to a story.
Solar Arctic
retraces the painting campaign which led the artist to this painting: going out into the light of dawn, covering oneself so as not to freeze, preparing a palette and the colors of a boreal range, and "
raised brush, on a promontory
”, extending the gesture of the impressionists who went out to paint outdoors.
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The “
Lofoten time
”, as Anna Boberg calls it, began in 1901, when she went there to paint, alone and as a beginner.
Sophie Van der Linden slips into the artist's mind to recount in the present one of these seasons in the islands, more than thirty years after the first, at the moment when advancing age will make this trip the last.
Art versus love
Anna Boberg is 70 years old, she…
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