Vintage Scandinavian fishing gear still life oil painting from Sweden, depicting colorful buoys and nets on a beach. Hand painted oil on board from the 1960s–1970s.

This Scandinavian fishing gear still life shows a pile of coastal equipment resting on a beach beside the sea. Nets, wooden frames, ropes, and bright fishing buoys create a lively composition. The coastal setting and working harbor objects give the painting a strong maritime character.

The artist uses energetic brushwork and bold outlines to build the forms. Bright red, pink, and orange buoys contrast with the muted blues and greys of the sea and sky. Executed in oil on board.

The painting has a strong decorative presence and works well in coastal or nautical interiors. Its colors and dynamic composition make it suitable for a living room, hallway, or beach house setting. A distinctive piece of vintage Scandinavian art and classic vintage wall decor.

DETAILS
Artist: Jurd Oseen
Subject: Fishing gear on a beach
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 69 × 55 cm (27.2 × 21.7 in)
Frame: Yes, vintage decorative frame
Signed: Yes, lower left
Condition: Good vintage condition without remarks
Era: 1960s–1970s
Style: Scandinavian modern maritime still life
Size category: Medium

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jurd Oseen (Jurd Wilhelm) was born in 1914 in Villstad, Jönköping County, Sweden, and died in 2013 in Basel, Switzerland. He studied at Otte Sköld’s painting school in 1935 and later at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts until 1939. He also traveled and studied in France, Italy, and Spain.
His work includes still lifes, portraits, Stockholm street scenes, and landscapes, often executed in drawing, woodcut, and painting. Oseen exhibited with Arne Granhall in Kristianstad in 1949 and participated in the Nationalmuseum exhibition Unga tecknare in 1942. He also held several solo exhibitions in Kristianstad and created mural commissions for residential buildings in the city. His work is represented in the collection of Kristianstads Museum.

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