Two new Swedish paintings for Orsay

3/10/23 - Acquisitions - Paris, Musée d’Orsay - As we recently pointed out when Carl Forsberg’s superb watercolour entered the Musée d’Orsay’s collections (see the news item of 9/2/23), Scandinavian art is one of the main focuses of the Musée d’Orsay’s current acquisitions policy. Comprising ten drawings and around twenty paintings, the strictly Swedish corpus already in its collections has been expanded to include two new artists, Oscar Björck (ill. 1) and Oskar Bergman (ill. 2), who have not previously featured in French public collections. Both a portrait and a genre scene, In the Nursery by Oscar Björck has already been added to the permanent collection, where it completes the room devoted to representations of childhood. The large canvas was acquired from the Danish auction house…