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Astrid Forselius-Johnson
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Astrid Forselius-Johnson was born in 1913 in Sweden and worked as a painter for much of the twentieth century, dying in 2003. Her archive is held at the Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet), Uppsala County unit (SE/ULA/13657), which confirms her status as a recognized professional artist. She is recorded under the name Forselius-Jonsson in some Swedish archival sources, though the hyphenated Forselius-Johnson is the form used in auction and exhibition records.
Forselius-Johnson worked across multiple mediums throughout her career, including oil on canvas, pastel, watercolor, and gouache. This range suggests a painter attentive to the specific qualities each medium offered rather than one committed to a single technique. Her output covered two main subject categories: floral compositions, which appear to have been a sustained area of focus throughout her career, and observed landscape, particularly coastal motifs along the eastern Swedish coastline.
Her connection to Öregrund, a small historic harbor town in Uppsala County on the Baltic coast, is documented directly in auction records. Multiple oil paintings of the harbor at Öregrund survive in the auction market, indicating she returned to this location repeatedly. Öregrund's wooden architecture, protected natural harbor, and strong northern light made it a recurring subject for Swedish painters of the mid-twentieth century. Her floral works range from intimate pastels to large-format oil paintings with a quality of abundance suggested by titles such as Blomsterprakt (Floral splendor).
An outdoor or folk-cultural strand in her practice is also documented: works depicting campfire scenes (lägereld) appear in multiple mediums, pointing to an interest in everyday Swedish outdoor life alongside her more formal compositional subjects.
Forselius-Johnson exhibited in Stockholm, with at least one documented exhibition in 1998. A photograph from 1968 identifies her as a practicing artist (konstnärinna) and connects her to Uppsala County. The Riksarkivet record confirms her dates and professional standing within the regional Swedish art community.
On the Auctionist platform, all 13 recorded works are oil paintings or works on paper. The auction market for her work has been centered at Metropol Auktioner in Stockholm, which accounts for 12 of 13 lots, with one further result at Upplandsauktionsverk. The highest recorded price on our platform was 3,200 SEK for Blomsterprakt. Other documented titles include harbor scenes at Öregrund in oil and pastels and watercolors of flowers and outdoor subjects.