After three highly successful auctions featuring Edvard Andersson’s works, Stockholms Auktionsverk now presents yet another long-awaited collection from the artist’s estate. The auction comprises around twenty carefully selected works on paper, created over several different decades.

Edvard Andersson (1891–1967) lived through the birth, breakthrough, and development of modernism. With an open mind and a profound interest in art, he followed the international art scene and was constantly inspired by new forms of expression. The result is a striking oeuvre by a confident, curious, and experimental modernist.

Raised in the working-class districts of Helsingborg, Andersson showed an early talent for drawing. His parents, who ran a tobacco shop, managed to save enough for him to travel to Stockholm in 1916 and study to become a drawing teacher at the Higher School of Arts and Crafts (today’s Konstfack). Already in 1918, at the age of 27, he held his first exhibition at the Killberg Art Salon in Helsingborg. After graduation, he worked as a drawing teacher—a profession he maintained alongside his artistic practice. Having a permanent position allowed him a freer, less economically pressured relationship with painting, enabling an independent and personal expression.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Andersson worked in a Cubist style. In the 1940s, he delved into abstract painting, and during the 1950s, he developed it further with great confidence: colourful compositions, decorative linear forms, and increasingly large formats. Figurative elements often appear as well—stylised women or suggestive movements—that give the works pulse and presence. Although it is difficult to identify a single source of inspiration, parallels with the work of Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, and, by extension, the international avant-garde that Andersson actively followed, are evident.

In 1956, around 500 of Andersson’s works were shown in a major solo exhibition at the prestigious Den Frie Udstilling in Copenhagen. Skåne remained his home: Helsingborg was his base, he had a summer studio in the dramatic Hovs Hallar, and in the fishing village of Knäbäck on Österlen, he connected with other artists and cultural figures. Andersson was one of those who literally lived with a pen in hand—according to his family, he would draw during Sunday dinners and walks. This relentless creativity reflects a strong drive, equally motivated by vocation and curiosity. He was also interested in philosophy, mathematics, and the people around him, which adds a particular depth to his visual world. For the wider public, Edvard Andersson remained a relatively unknown figure in Sweden for a long time.

In addition to exhibitions in Stockholm and Malmö, he was also recognised posthumously in Paris and Florida—and in several cases, received more attention abroad than at home, including coverage in leading journals such as La Quotidienne, Le Peintre, Nouveaux Jours, and La Revue.

This auction presents a rare opportunity to acquire works with strong provenance and clear art-historical significance—sheets that reflect a lifetime of exploration, precision, and modernist freedom.