Description

Graphite drawing with highlights in greens, brown, and black on an off-white sheet of trace paper. A wide, low, rectilinear building is near the middle of the central horizon line. To the right is a gently sloping hill. At the bottom of the hill is an even grove of light green trees and at the top is a scatted group of dark green threes. To the left, leading up to the building, is a path with a curving, segmented wall on one side. The drawing is framed by a foreground of trees and a wall on either side. The figure of a man with a tall had and a cane is in the lower right, looking out into the scene. Various sketches, guide lines, and level marks appear around the border of the drawing.

The Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, a collaboration between Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, is widely considered one of the most important cemetery designs of the twentieth century and is noted for its sensitive integration of structures and landscape. The small building near the center of this drawing is the Crematorium, one of the major buildings at the site designed by Asplund.

Further reading:

- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/558/

Additional Information

Provenance: Max Protetch Gallery, New York (84.079); Martin E. Zimmerman.

Type

inscription

Location

front, lower right

Method

pencil

Text

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