Fanny Brate – Spring Shore of the Archipelago – Postcard

Unlike most of Fanny Brate's work, this painting has no figure, no interior, no domestic detail — just the Swedish archipelago in the earliest days of spring: young birch trees pushing out their first green leaves on a rocky bank, a sandy shore revealed by low water, and dark wooded islands holding the horizon beyond the grey-green sea. It's the moment the year turns, held quietly on card stock. No vase, no bouquet — a straightforward landscape for anyone building a nature postcard collection.

• A6 (10×15 cm)
• 350 g/m² card stock