Karl-Erik Hagberg, Swedish artist. Botanical composition, oil on board. Approx. 1970s.

Karl-Erik Hagberg, oil on board, listed Swedish visual artist. Decorative botanical composition depicting large leaves and plant forms, executed in a strong, heavily textured impasto technique. Signed K. E. Hagberg and dated 1970. Origin: Sweden. Material: Oil on board. Dimensions: Visual size 40 × 65 cm, total size 46 × 71 cm. Period: 1970. Condition: In very good condition with minor signs of wear. Bio: Karl-Erik Hagberg was a Swedish visual artist whose work includes figurative and decorative subjects with a pronounced interest in colour, texture, and materiality. In this work, the substantial impasto application of the oil paint creates an almost relief-like surface, while the simplified botanical forms and warm earth and ochre tones give the composition a distinctive modernist character.