The following description has been prepared entirely by the current owner, Roberts S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has not been edited by Sloans & Kenyon

Note 1): Sodersten was born in Filipstad, Sweden in 1862. After studying from 1881-1887 at the Swedish Art Academy and in Paris, Sodersten came to New Haven, Connecticut in 1889, in which he died in 1926, after a long and fruitful career painting and exhibiting art primarily in New York City, New Haven, and Hartford, Connecticut. A Sodersten Memorial exhibition was held in Karlskoga, Sweden in 1941. Per the Askart.com biography and museum list for Sodersten, his works are in museum collections at: Mattatuck Museum, Yale University Gallery of Art, Litchfield Historical Society, all of Connecticut, George Walter Vincent Smith Museum of Springfield, Massachusetts, Stockholm City Museum and Swedish National Museum

Note 2) This is a very beautiful and technically very accomplished Impressionist painting executed in the American Impressionist style in 1911, in excellent condition and attractively framed. It is a snow and winter scene, which is highly favored and valued by Impressionist collectors. If this were a snow/winter scene painted by Edward Redfield or another well-known Impressionist, it would command several thousand dollars. There are almost no records of Sodersten auction sales. Mr. Fastov was able to locate in Askart.com only one Sodersten 1990 landscape sale in the U.S. for $1,002 (in 1990 dollar value), which provides, at a minimum, support for a presale estimate of $1,000-$2,000 in 2013. Such a very old auction record regarding the sale of a Sodersten painting, most importantly, is a spring or summer landscape and is in no way comparable to the beauty and esthetic appeal or desirability to collectors of this Sodersten Connecticut snow scene of a country road flanked by snow-covered fence posts, trees and an old farmhouse. All of the foregoing considerations warrant the conclusion that the presale estimate of $2,000-$4,000 is reasonable and justifiable.

Title/Subject: The Cottage by the Lake Signed. Oil on canvas. 27 in. x 22 in. sold for $1,002 on 09/14/1990 at Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, MA