Framed Lithograph, Man Fixing Nets, Ingemar Lööf
Framed Lithograph, Man Fixing Nets, Ingemar Lööf
Frame dimensions: 55 x 45 cm.
Image dimensions: 22 x 17.5 cm.
Ingemar Lööf (Sweden, 20th Century)
Man in Abstract Surroundings, 1952
Lithograph
Signed, dated and numbered 43/100In this 1952 lithograph, Swedish artist Ingemar Lööf positions a lone male figure within a dense web of intersecting lines and architectural forms. The composition straddles figuration and abstraction, evoking both psychological complexity and the physical structures of labour. The crouched pose, combined with the linear tangle around him, suggests the quiet act of mending fishing nets — a gesture rooted in repetition and solitude. Printed in an edition of 100, the work reflects post-war Nordic modernism’s preoccupation with isolation, industry, and the blurred boundaries between man and his environment.