International studio (34.1908)

Bruno Liljefors


u the BOATMAN55 BY WILLEM ROELOFS
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sentimental, nor does the kindly humour which
often lights up his keen eyes, find much, if any,
expression in his art. He never condescends to
the often objectionable
trick of endowing the
animal world with drol-
leries which in reality are
foreign to it. He never
depicts animals in their
relation to man, and do-
mestic animals have no
attraction whatever for
him as a painter. But
Liljefors knows the ways
and the whims of the eagle
and the gull, of the elk
and the squirrel, of the
snipe and the wild goose,
better than any painter has
ever done before him, and
better, I venture to add,
than will ever any painter
hereafter. He has, so to
speak, lived his life with
them all and studied them
with the rapt, twofold

interest of sportsman and artist at all seasons of
the year, at dusk and at dawn. He has witnessed
their cooing and courting ; he has seen them hatch

THE MARAUDER” (OIL PAINTING)
(In the Collection of P. Furstemberg

BY BRUNO LILJEFORS
Gothenburg: photo. A. Jonasson)
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