Painting — History & Facts
Oil painting, sketch for 1906 commenced and 1908 completed the large wall painting (oil on canvas) in the Central Postal House, Stockholm. The painting portrays an everyday but festive movement and vibrant scene from Skeppsbron in Stockholm, with harbour workers the foreground, postman with horse and carriage, steamboats, postilons, a customs officer and travellers under a sunny sky. The mural in The central posthouse is over 7.5 m long.
The sketch was valued by Bukowski, Aukowski, 1986, Anders Reihnér Stockholms Stadsmuseum on the theme of Harbour work) to 1,000,000: -.






