Olafur Th. Olafsson synir i Ottawa
Morgunbladis Island, Manudaginn 10. desember, 2007 - Innlendar
frettir
SYNING a verkum Olafs Th. Olafssonar myndlistarmanns stendur nu
yfir i Ottawa i Kanada.
SYNING a verkum Olafs Th. Olafssonar myndlistarmanns stendur nu
yfir i Ottawa i Kanada. Sendirad islands i Ottawa og
Islandsvinafelagid i borginni standa fyrir syningunni, sem
haldin er i anddyri storbyggingar i hjarta borgarinnar, ţar sem
sendirad islands hefur adsetur. Olafur synir um 20 myndir, allt
landslagsmyndir fra islandi og adrar natturulyfsmyndir.
Ennfremur synir vestur-islenska listakonan Darleen Davis myndir,
sem hun hefur malad eftir fyrirmyndum ur islensku umhverfi. Gert
er rad fyrir ad syning Olafs fari vidar um Kanada a nćstunni,
segir i frettatilkynningu.
Olafsson, Markus Orn
Antonsson and Volundur Thorbjornsson in Ottawa Citizen, November
2007.
Jonas Freydal Thorsteinsson owner of Artibus, finds a
National Treasure lost for over half a centuty.
November 2007. "Long-Lost Icelandic Art
Discovered in France, by Jonas Freydal
Thorsteinsson"
 
Invaluable artwork, including 100
smaller paintings, coal drawings,
sketches and two oil paintings by
Icelandic artist Thorvaldur Skúlason
(1906-1984), which were believed lost
after the artist escaped France during
World War II, have been found.
The artwork was discovered by entrepreneur
and art enthusiast Jónas Freydal (Jonas
Freydal Thorsteinsson, who has been looking
for Skúlason’s work for many years,
Fréttabladid reports.
Skúlason made the drawings and paintings
between spring 1939 and late summer 1940
when he lived in Paris and Tours. In 1940
the artist fled France with his wife and
daughter after the Nazis invaded the country
but left all his possessions behind.
Until now his work was considered lost
forever except for one oil painting that Dr.
Gunnlaugur Thórdarson managed to locate in
Tours many years ago.
Freydal picked up the trail where Thórdarson
left off and has been questioning
inhabitants in Tours about Skúlason’s work
for more than a decade when he finally got
lucky and found the drawings and paintings
among objects inherited by the heirs of
painter Erlingur Friis.
Friis had actually exhibited some of
Skúlason’s paintings in Randers, Denmark, in
1990, but news of the exhibition did not
reach Iceland.
http://icelandreview.com
Le Fog Exhibition
in Faskrudsfjordur East Iceland 2007
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