Framed Oil on Panel, Still Life With Two White Balls,Gunnar Hållander (1907–1977

Gunnar Hållander (1907–1977)
Still Life with Two White Balls, 1967
Oil on panel, signed and dated; signed, dated and titled on the reverse
Panel: 65 × 46 cm; framed: 80.5 × 62 cm
Painted in 1967, this still life reduces its subject to a tight cluster of essential forms — sphere, cylinder, cube and cone — rendered in a restrained palette of white, grey and near-black, with a single sharply faceted dark shape introducing a note of structural tension among the softer, rounded volumes; the result is a quietly disciplined study in balance, mass and light, in the pared-back tradition of Cubist and Morandi-esque still life.