SELF PORTRAIT
signed Alf Lundeby lower right
oil on canvas
39 x31cm; 15 1/4 x 12 1/4in (unframed)

Property of a Private Collection

Provenance
Madeleine Thomas, Oslo (a gift from the artist in the 1950s)
By descent from the above to the present owner

Lundeby grew up in Solør to the north east of Kristiania (modern-day Olso), studied with Harriet backer (1896-97) and travelled in his late 'twenties through Germany and Italy, visiting Munich, Florence, Rome and Siena before wintering in Rome. In 1909 he studied with Matisse in Paris alongside fellow Norwegian painters Axel Revold (1887-1962) and Henrik Sørensen (see lot 201). But it was Italy that drew him back to paint time and again, visiting and staying for extended periods, often years at a time, on at least six different occasions between 1923 and 1952. In Italy he completed his most celebrated works, including From the Palantine (1898) and View towards the Palantine (1899), both in the National Museum, Oslo. Other examples of his work are in public collections in Bergen and Lillehammer.

offered for sale without reserve