Carl Birkso, Single Bedroom Lit By The Evening’s Sun

Carl Birkso, Single Bedroom Lit By The Evening’s SunAn unusual oil on canvas depicting a bedroom illuminated by the last rays of the evenings sun. The artist, Carl Birkso (b. 1901), has captured the rich orange hue of a sunset before darkness falls on this simple Danish interior. Carl Birkso was a pseudonym for Frederik Drews the son of Kaj Drews who is also known for his fine interior scenes. Its interesting to consider why Frederik chose this particular room to focus on as he also painted it at other

The painting is signed/dated in the lower right and housed within a later gilded frame

An evocative 18th-century provincial depiction of the resurrection of Jesus Christ

The portrait is housed within an appropriate frame from the late-19th-century

So how old is this gentleman and how did he end up discarded in a junk shop in Essex

which is why it’s known as the Königspesel (King’s Parlour)

As the decade progressed

particularly around the face

an inscription reads ‘Aetatis svae 70

Note also the splash of green reflected in the top right corner

One billows smoke into the air as the other two lay dormant

which translates as ‘at the age of 70

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