Bruno Liljefors — Fox and Black Grouse in Frost, 1905

This is a different winter from the snow chase Liljefors painted elsewhere in the same period. Here the cold is older and heavier: the forest stands wrapped in deep hoarfrost, every twig and pine needle thickened by a slow, dry freeze, and the colours have drained to a pale silvering that almost belongs to a Japanese print. The fox and the black grouse share the picture, but the painting belongs first to the trees, then to the silence, then to the animals. Signed 1905, when Liljefors had begun to push further into atmosphere and away from incident.

Printed at A6 on heavy art paper, the card keeps the muted range of pale silver, ash blue and faint warm earth without flattening any of it. A measured send for a postcrossing partner who likes the colder end of landscape painting, or a small framed addition to a wall already carrying a winter scene.

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