Axel Tallberg, Beer Drinker

Axel Tallberg, Beer DrinkerThis late 19th century etching by Swedish artist, Axel Tallberg, depicts an older man sitting in a cellar and drinking beer. Hes leaning back on a barrel and smoking a rather long pipe. Tallberg produced this during his six year spell in England, so perhaps the pubs had a lasting effect on him. Tallberg is considered to be one of the most important etchers of his generation and the British Museum holds another copy of this work. Signed in pencil,

Frame with a few losses including a missing piece at the bottom

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

A fine early 20th-century genre scene by Austrian artist

In the top right

a large dining table appears to be set with a single meal and a solitary chair

The painting is housed within a fine hand-carved foliate frame with a decorative inner border

He produced this towards the end of his life when his style had become easy and less refined

The painting is signed in the lower right and housed within a gilded frame that could be its original

when he created this in circa 1890

It’s a rare proof and signed in pencil by both artists

Holland Condition

This fine piece captures the appearance of Correggio’s work prior to a clean in 1935 when several details were removed including the rabbit on the left