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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

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Sketch of a weathered wooden boat on a beach, with a barefoot man in white leaning on its hull beside grey water.

The Lamenting Boat

1906

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark suit, face and clasped hands lit warmly against a dark background.

Portrait of the German Actor Rudolf Rittner

1895

Loose brushwork painting of a dark green forest on a lake shore, a red-roofed building among the trees, and a pink-yellow eve

Lakeside Landscape

1911

Painting of an elderly woman in a dark headscarf with a lined, weary face and red-rimmed eyes against a brown background.

Vanha eukko

1896

Loose oil sketch of a lake edged by dark forest, grassy shore in front, and billowing clouds across a pale blue sky.

Light behind the Clouds

1899

Painting of a savannah at sunset with red and purple hills, palm trees, and a flat golden plain under a pale sky.

Sunset on the Savannah

1909

Nude figures in a dim wooden sauna, one tending a glowing stove while a woman washes a seated man's hair.

In the Sauna

1889

Stylized painting of two figures in a tense confrontation, one holding a small blade, against a red background with gold vine

The Fratricide

1897

Oil sketch of a blue sea below pink and violet mountains under a pale sky.

Red Sea

1910

Painting of brown horses grazing in snow beneath snowy mountains, framed by blue twisted posts and a wooden beam.

Taos Home in Sunlight

1925

Loose oil sketch of autumn trees with first snow beside a calm lake, a red-roofed house on a far point, and hills behind.

Autumn Landscape, First Snow

1897

Men in white shirts build a log house from stacked timber beside pine trees under a blue sky.

A House of Stout Logs

1906

Loose oil painting of bare dark tree branches in front of Paris rooftops, chimneys and green shrubs in a backyard.

Parisian backyard

1884

Loose oil sketch of a snowy winter landscape with blue shadows, pine and birch trees, and a bare branch in the foreground.

Winter Landscape

1887

Painting of a decaying sander fish lying on dark wet ground, with pale torn flesh and loose blue brushstrokes around it.

Decaying Sander

1884

Painting of nude women wearing flower wreaths in a rowboat on bright water, with a bearded old man in white at the left.

Väinämöinen's Voyage

1909

Oil sketch of five dancing warriors in red wraps and feathered headdresses on sand under a blue sky.

Dancing Kikuyu Warriors

1909

Bare-chested man with a staff surrounded by snarling wolves and lynxes among pale branches in an earthy, ochre-toned painting

Kullervo Herding his Wild Flocks

1917

Watercolor of a helmeted knight on a horse riding through flames beside a coiled serpent and a fallen figure.

Ritari ja kuningaskäärme, Seitsemän veljeksen kuvitusta

1907

Oil sketch of a young blond boy with blue eyes against a brown wooden wall, signed Gallen 1886.

Orphan Boy

1886

Painting of a boy raising a kite on a hill by a lake, with two girls watching and a woman in black at left.

Spring, study for the Jusélius Mausoleum Frescoes

1903

Nude women bathe and play in stylized blue and gold waves, with a reclining figure on the sandy shore in the foreground.

Oceanides

1909

Pastel of a man standing in a red canoe and a woman leaning over it on a shore, with another canoeist on a lake.

Midsummer Night

1889

Loose painting of an autumn forest with golden birch leaves, pale trunks, misty background and a young green spruce.

Autumn Landscape

1911

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark suit and green necktie against a dark background, by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1895.

Portrait of Edvard Munch

1895

Painting of nude figures in a red boat on a dark river, with a crowd of clothed onlookers and a young girl on the shore.

By the River of Tuonela, study for the Jusélius Mausoleum Frescoes

1903

Painting of grey rain clouds over a calm lake, with a dark forest line and small red-roofed farm buildings on the shore.

Rain Clouds over a Lake Landscape

1883

Oil portrait of a bare-shouldered woman with curly dark hair turning her head, against a loose dark background.

Malliharjoitelma

1880

Painting of a wooden porch railing and post overlooking a calm lake framed by pine trees under a pale sky.

The Kalela Porch

1900

Painting of a man in a flat cap turning a hand mill, with loose brushwork and a dark background.

Milling by Hand

1886

Painting of three zebras grazing on a green and ochre plain beneath blue hills and a pale sky.

Zebras

1909

Snowy winter landscape with a rushing river, a snow-covered pine in the foreground, and frosted conifers beyond.

Imatra in Winter

1893