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Leopold Fare
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Leopold Fare was born on November 15, 1926, in Stockholm and spent his formative years training within the Swedish post-war art world. He studied at Otte Skölds målarskola -- the private school run by the painter and later Nationalmuseum director Otte Sköld -- alongside Académie Libre under Pierre Olofsson and Lennart Rodhe, and then at Konstakademien under Ragnar Sandberg. These were studios steeped in the French painterly tradition, and the influence shows clearly in the work Fare produced throughout his career.
Fare worked across figurative and landscape modes, and his output spans oil on canvas, watercolor, lithograph, and mixed technique. He is most closely associated with the landscapes of Provence and the Languedoc -- subjects he returned to repeatedly over several decades, capturing pine-lined roads, sun-bleached hillsides, and the particular blue light of the Mediterranean interior. Works such as Bergslandskap Languedoc (Sauve) 1991-1993 show his sustained engagement with a specific geography, while Landskap med pinjer Provence and Landskap vid Ramatuelle provence document his regular presence in the region.
Alongside the landscape work, Fare painted figures with a directness that keeps sentiment at a distance: Flickor i trädgården Provence, Två flickor, Mor med barn II, and Flickan på morgonen all treat the figure as a compositional element as much as a subject. He also produced still lifes -- rotfrukter, blommor och frukter -- and occasional abstractions. His lithographic output was substantial and circulated in larger editions, making his work accessible to a wider collecting public.
Fare exhibited widely in Sweden and is represented in the collection of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He died on November 29, 1996, in Hässelby, Stockholm.
In the Auctionist database, Fare has 33 catalogued items, with 1 currently active. His work appears most frequently at Bukowskis Stockholm (7 items), Auktionshuset Kolonn (4), Metropol (3), and Stockholms Auktionsverk Sickla (3). The market is dominated by paintings (20 items) alongside prints and graphics (2). Realized prices are modest -- top sale is Två flickor at SEK 2,400, followed by Landskap med pinjer Provence at SEK 1,960 and Flickor i trädgården Provence at SEK 1,800 -- placing him firmly in the accessible segment of the Swedish secondary market.