It is with great sorrow that we announce the death of Gunnar Norrman 11 April 2005, a month before his 93rd birthday.

In November 2003 Fitch-Febvrel published
Gunnar Norrman: The Complete Graphic Work 1941-2001,
the first catalogue to cover the entire 60-year oeuvre of this Swedish master.
For more information and a visual of the catalogue,
visit the Norrman catalogue page.

See below for more information on the artist.

Selection of Works:

A native of Scania, Sweden's southernmost province, Gunnar Norrman received formal training as a botanist and concert-grade pianist before turning to art. For over 50 years he has focused his art exclusively on drawings and prints in black and white. His subjects -- trees, flowers, land- and sea-scapes, more rarely still-lifes -- are filled with a poetic silence conveying the oriental tradition of reverence and humility before nature, a strong theme in Norrman's life. While rendering the most fragile detail, he still is able to produce "sumptuous concentrations of black" (John Russell, The New York Times, May 1988), or to create the effect of a cool, silvery mist. As an accomplished musician, he combines in his work the same delicacy and strength required in an interpretation of Brahms, Chopin or Shumann, among the composers he admires most.

Since his earliest individual show at the Malmö Museum in 1942, Norrman has had numerous exhibitions in Europe -- with Galerie Brusberg in Berlin, Fischer Fine Art in London, and Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris, inter al. -- as well as in Japan. In the United States, Fitch-Febvrel offered his first individual exhibition in 1980, and has had seven since, the last in November/December 2003. The Pucker Gallery in Boston has held seven exhibitions, with accompanying catalogues, since 1994, the latest in January/February 2006.

Norrman's work can be found in the collections of a score of museums, including, locally, those of the Metropolitan Museum and the New York Public Library.


Biographical Information and List of Exhibitions

New York Times 4/29/83 Review
New York Times 5/20/88 Review
New York Times 6/23/95 Critics' Choices
Tufts Daily 4/03/96 Review
Boston Globe 4/04/96 Review
Artnet Review Dec. 2000