Palette and Petals. Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Oil Painting.

This beautiful 1950s still life by celebrated Swedish painter Helge Andersson showcases the artist’s signature style bold color contrasts, precise composition, and a refined sense of everyday beauty. A rich interplay of textures and tones animates the scene: a sculptural white pitcher, a single lemon and green apple, a soft purple bowl, and a potted flowering plant rest on a sunlit table. A painter’s palette and brushes placed in the background serve as a quiet nod to the artist’s own craft, blurring the line between subject and self-reference.

Bathed in luminous hues of pink, lavender, and cobalt, the objects are elevated beyond their mundane function, transformed instead into carriers of visual harmony and narrative suggestion. The draped blue fabric draws the eye inward, guiding the viewer through a carefully orchestrated arrangement where each element plays a role in the painting’s balance and rhythm.

Helge Andersson, one of Sweden’s sought-after still life painters, invites us to pause and consider the quiet elegance of domestic spaces — scenes often overlooked but here rendered with striking clarity and emotional depth.

Great vintage condition, frame with minor wear.

Framed size: 58 x 43cm / 22.8 x 16.9in

Technique: Oil on canvas.

Artist: Helge Sigvard Andersson, Swedish (1913-1988)