Artist

Svavar Guðnason

Icelandic, 1909–1988

Svavar Guðnason was an Icelandic artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Svavar Guðnason was born in Höfn.

Svavar Guðnason (18 November 1909 – 25 June 1988) was an Icelandic painter active in the avant-garde movement COBRA. He is considered one of the leading Icelandic twentieth-century abstract painters and his works can be found in major modern art museums in Europe and Scandinavia, for example in the Louisiana Museum in Denmark and the CoBrA Museum in the Netherlands.

Works by Svavar Guðnason

Collections represented

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