Ragnar SANDBERG
1902–1972, Sweden
Also known as: RS

Signature proven counterfeit
Watercolor, signed RS, 30x23 cm, guitar playing woman. The painting cataloged and sold in October 2011 by a small Auction houses Malmö department over the internet as a work of "Ragnar Sandberg (1902-1972)". The police noted the painting and contacted Ragnar Sandberg's daughter, who dismissed the painting as an original work of her father Ragnar Sandberg. The auction house contacted the buyer and withdrew the painting. The painting is under investigation. Warning! It is possible that crime can not be verified and then the painting will remain in the market. It can therefore once again come up for sale, and incorrectly stated, as an original work of Ragnar Sandberg.

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Ragnar Sandberg studied for Tor Bjurström at Valand. For Marcel Gromaire in Paris. He was inspired by Pierre Bonnard art. His paintings are a kind of snapshots. The shimmer of color and are full of motion. He wanted his art would be immediate and avsiktslös, that it would catch even things that you can not see, such as wind and sea breeze, naive and full of humor. During the 1940s he was appointed professor of art at the Art Academy in Stockholm.
Represented: Modern Museum in Stockholm, with, the seagulls, the National Museum in Stockholm, Malmo Museum, Gothenburg Art Museum, Borås, Gävle and Museum in London.
Source: Art Signature Dictionary
Ragnar Sandberg studerade på Valand för Tor Bjurström 1920. För Marcel Gromaire i Paris. Han inspirerades av Pierre Bonnards bildkonst. Hans måleri är ett slags ögonblicksbilder. De skimrar av färg och är fulla av rörelse. Han ville att hans konst skulle vara omedelbar och avsiktslös, att den skulle fånga även sådant som inte går att se, som t ex vinden och havsbruset, naiv och fylld av humor.
Under 1940-talet utsågs han till professor i teckning på Konsthögskolan i Stockholm.
Utställningar:
Biennalen i Venedig. En retropektiv utställning på Konstakademien i Stockholm 1972. Liljevalchs Konsthall 2002. Göteborgs Konstmuseum 2003,
Offentlig utsmyckning:
Väggmålning Lorensbergs festvåning, Göteborg, Zoofysiologiska institutionen i Uppsala, dekoreration av Redaresalens väggar, en privatsal på Operakällan i Stockholm. Dekoration av en festvåningslokal på Park Avenue Hotel i Göteborg 1958.
Representerad:
Moderna Muséet i Stockholm, med, Fiskmåsarna, Nationalmuseum i Stockholm, Malmö Museum, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Borås, Gävle museum och i London.
Source: Art Signature Dictionary

Lilla Bommen / Dykdalber (-36)

På Stranden

Landstigning (1933)

Tidningsläsare Iii (-62)

Modell Mot öppet Fönster (-54)

Nature Morte Med Vit Kopp Ii (1946-1947)

Embarkering - På Bryggan

Badande (-68)

Modell - Birgit Broms (-53)

Samtalande Människor (-64)

Tre Figurer (-33)

Gumma Och Måsar (-58-59)

Blomma

Fält Och Berg - Slussen (-30)

Hamnbild (-42)

Non-intervention (-37)

Sommarflanörer I Göteborg (Executed 1930's)

ångbåtsbrygga Lilla Bommen, Göteborg

Badstrand I (-35)

By, Slussen (Executed 1934)

Hönshuset (41)

På Bryggan

Stilleben Med Vinglas

äpplen På Fat

Kortspelare (l:a Bommen) (1937)

Nattpromenad, Lilla Bommen

Samtal På Parkbänk

Konversation

Les Sablettes (1937)

Strandpromenad (1963)

Poeten (vision) (1935)

Tidningsläsaren

Utsikt Mot Korsgatan (painted 1938)

Motiv Från Hanhals (1931)

Slussen - Orust

Flanörer

Gren Med äpplen I Hanhals (1943)

Måltiden

Självporträtt

Duvorna Matas

Lilla Bommen

Badande (1937)
Hönor (1949)

Snapsglas (1969)
Landskap Hanshals

Päronplockaren (1940)
Solstol (-33)
