Gustaf CEDERSTRÖM
1845–1933, Sweden

Oil painting on panel, motif with a hurt man, signed "Gustavus Cederström", 52x70 cm. Painted on paper, applied to the board. Signed in the right bottom corner. Around the signature are some scratches. Illumination with ultraviolet light showed no changes in the painting. As the area around the signature was examined by microscope discovered the remains of another signature, which was in the color layer below Cederströms. This is a hasty sketch of a historical painting. It is not done with Cederströms skill but seems to be made by an artist. It's a romantic mood picture made in the 1890s. Cederstrom painted realistic and should not therefore be creator of the painting. The figures in the painting is too "loose" so constructed as to be Gustaf Cederströms. District Court assessment: painting original signature has been removed and then re-signed by Gustav Cederströms name. The painting has since become a forgery and shall be forfeited..