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Anders Fogelin
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Anders Fogelin was born in 1933 in Västervik, on the Swedish east coast, but grew up in Dingle, Bohuslän, on the west coast - a geographical shift that placed him in the granite landscape that Swedish painters have returned to for generations. The west coast shaped him. He moved there early, came of age among the Bohuslän rocks and inlets, and that attachment to specific outdoor places would run through his work as an oil painter and printmaker for the rest of his career.
He arrived at formal art education relatively late, enrolling at the Royal Institute of Art (Konstakademien) in Stockholm in 1954, where he studied until 1960. Six years in the academy gave him a thorough grounding in drawing, colour and compositional structure, and he left with the technical fluency that would allow him to move comfortably between oils on canvas, oils on panel and printmaking. He lived with the artist Evy Låås from 1952 until his death in 1982, and their shared domestic world - gardens, interiors, the light through windows - filtered into many of his subjects alongside the broader landscapes he painted outdoors.
Fogelin worked within a figurative tradition that was out of fashion for much of his active years, the 1960s and 1970s, but he held his course. His oils are typically grounded in direct observation: groves of trees, stretches of road, garden compositions, park motifs. The titles in his auction record trace the same terrain - 'Dunge med träd' (A grove with trees), 'Landskap med väg' (Landscape with road), 'Interiör', harbour motifs. These are paintings that report back from specific places rather than constructing ideal scenes. He also worked in colour lithography, producing editions with subjects such as 'Vid Bosporen' (At the Bosphorus, 1975), which suggests travel as another source alongside the domestic and the regional.
His work entered the permanent collections of Nationalmuseum and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, which gives a measure of the institutional standing he had achieved by the time of his death in 1982 at only 49 years old. The brevity of that career - roughly twenty years of mature production - is part of what defines his market presence today: a finite body of work without the late-career proliferation that can dilute auction prices.
On the Swedish auction market, Fogelin's paintings and prints appear consistently, with particular concentration at Göteborgs Auktionsverk, reflecting his west coast associations. Auctionist currently tracks 40 items across venues including Göteborgs Auktionsverk, Halmstads Auktionskammare and Stockholms Auktionsverk. The database records a top sale of 6,675 SEK for 'Landskap med väg' and 5,000 SEK for 'Dunge med träd' (oil on canvas, 1973). Oils consistently outperform lithographs, and interior subjects have also attracted steady interest, with 'Interiör' reaching 2,400 SEK. His prints in editions - colour lithographs numbered in editions of 200 to 360 - trade at more accessible price points of 400-1,200 SEK.