Storm in the Skerries. "The Flying Dutchman"  1892

A heaving blue-green sea meets bluish-black, cloudy, stormy skies. A sombre image of violent forces of nature where the expressive feel is intensified by the fierceness of Strindberg’s spatula work. [br] He found the scene depicted at Dalarö in the Stockholm skerries in the summer of 1892. [b]The painting as a valve[/b] To August Strindberg the playwright and author,...