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Ring gymnast I
1911
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 178.6 × 146.0 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.r.: Eugene Jansson (2nd n in Jansson underlined) / 1911
- Accession Number
- IC1-1987
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1987
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- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Eugène Jansson lived and worked in Stockholm, where he created images of Sweden’s water-bound metropolis that are haunting and melancholic. From 1890 onwards he focused on panoramic nocturnal views of his city, capturing the mysterious, glowing northern light of the Swedish archipelago. After 1905, however, Jansson turned almost exclusively to painting images of men swimming, working out with weights and practising gymnastics in the nude. Aware of the dramatic change in his style that they represented, Jansson at first worked on these nude studies in secret. The public unveiling of some of them in 1907 brought a storm of both praise and condemnation. Between 1907 and 1913 Jansson lived openly with his model and lover Knut Nyman, a bold move in a Sweden where homosexuality was illegal until 1944.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Leisure, Games and Sport
- Subjects (specific)
- flying rings gymnastic equipment gymnastics men (male humans) nudes (representations) pose suspended (positional attributes)
