Anders Loman - Evening Street Scene with Carriage and Gas Lamps, 1912
Prix régulier 27,204.00 krAnders Loman (1879–1953, Swedish)
Evening Street Scene with Carriage and Gas Lamps, 1912
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
Unframed 35 × 28 cm (13.8 × 11 in); framed 45 × 38.5 cm (17.7 × 15.2 in)
Provenance: A Swedish private collection
Condition Report: Recently conserved by a professional art conservator. Colors remain strong and vibrant. Craquelure is present throughout the surface, consistent with the painting’s age. Presented in a newly made gilt frame.
Essay
This atmospheric painting by Anders Loman captures a quiet city street bathed in the subtle glow of gaslight on a winter evening.A horse-drawn carriage disappears into the distance, its rear lamps casting soft reflections onto the wet cobblestones. Dimly lit buildings flank the composition, while the blue dusk sky looms overhead. Loman’s palette of deep blues, warm ambers, and violet shadows evokes the stillness of nightfall, creating a cinematic sense of narrative suspense and intimacy.
The scene is built from contrasts, between light and dark, movement and stillness, isolation and suggestion. The figures in the background are rendered in shadow, barely distinguishable, heightening the quiet drama of urban life at night. The brushwork is confident and painterly, with softened contours and expressive impasto used in the illumination around the streetlamps. This depiction of city life avoids grandiosity, focusing instead on the understated beauty of everyday urban solitude.
Anders Loman was a Swedish painter born in 1879 who worked in a variety of genres, including portraiture, interior scenes, and landscape, but he is perhaps most compelling when portraying the human presence within atmospheric environments. Though less widely known than some of his contemporaries, Loman developed a distinctive voice grounded in tonal harmony and observational nuance. His night scenes in particular reveal a subtle sensitivity to light and shadow, suggesting affinities with both Scandinavian Naturalism and early modern urban Impressionism. This work, dated 1912, reflects an artist at ease with the quiet poetry of the city after dark, a theme rarely explored with such intimacy and restraint.
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