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Bengt Arne Linderos
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Bengt Arne Linderos came to art as if by inheritance. Born on April 17, 1929 in Glimåkra parish, Skåne, he was the son of artist Anselm Karlsson Linderos, and the path from that rural corner of southern Sweden to the art schools of Gothenburg must have felt both natural and necessary. He died on December 18, 1989 in Dalums parish, Ulricehamns municipality, leaving a body of work that sits at an unusual intersection of surrealism, landscape painting, and monumental public art.
His formal training took place at Slöjdföreningen (the Swedish Society of Craft and Industrial Design) and then at Valand, Gothenburg's storied fine arts academy. Valand in the postwar decades was a place where figuration and abstraction were in constant dialogue, and Linderos emerged from it with a practice that refused to choose one side cleanly. He signed much of his work with the monogram BAL - both a signature and a kind of stamp marking work that was distinctly his own.
In his paintings, Linderos worked with what sources describe as surrealistic images in strong colors: still lifes with an unsettled quality, coastal landscapes where the light feels slightly displaced, figure compositions that lean toward the dreamlike. He moved freely across oil, tempera, ink drawing, and lithography, and the range of supports - canvas, board, paper - suggests a restless experimenter rather than a craftsman settled into habit. His coastal scenes, which appear frequently under titles like "Kustlandskap" and "Kustmotiv," have a particular atmospheric weight, as if the Swedish west coast had permanently shaped his palette toward grey-greens and cold blues.
Public commissions gave Linderos a different register. A sculpture placed in Hjällboparken in Gothenburg and decorative work at Ormen Lange in Vårby - the 300-meter serpentine housing complex in Masmo, completed in 1964 - testify to his ability to operate at architectural scale. These commissions, both in and around greater Stockholm and Gothenburg, brought his imagery into everyday civic space well beyond what gallery exhibitions could achieve.
On Auctionist, Linderos is represented by 30 works, split between paintings (19 catalogued under "Paintings") and works filed under the broader "Art" category (11), suggesting a mixture of oils, lithographs, and pastels. Göteborgs Auktionsverk accounts for the largest share of his market with 16 lots, followed by Stockholms Auktionsverk Göteborg (5 lots). Top auction prices in the database include 3,576 SEK for a "Landskap" at Göteborgs Auktionsverk, 2,714 SEK for a "Komposition" (monogram signed BAL) at Stockholms Auktionsverk Magasin 5, and 2,500 SEK for a coastal landscape. Lithographs signed and numbered in editions of up to 225 have sold in the 300-600 SEK range, offering a lower entry point for collectors.