{"product_id":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup","title":"Self Portrait With Pipe By Nicolai Astrup","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eMuseum-Quality Giclée Prints\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eOur giclée prints are crafted using archival pigment inks that resist fading and faithfully preserve the original tonalities and hues of the artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eNo Watermarks or Branding\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eYour print will arrive free of any watermarks or branding—just the art, exactly as intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eSizing \u0026amp; Framing Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eUnframed Matte Paper Prints:\u003c\/em\u003e Delivered in the exact dimensions of the artwork on 280 gsm Artist Paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eStretched Canvas:\u003c\/em\u003e Ready to hang with neatly finished edges and solid wood support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eFramed Prints:\u003c\/em\u003e Professionally mounted in a premium wood frame with backing and wire installed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eFast, Free Shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"\" data-start=\"\"\u003eFree shipping in the USA and UK. 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Given Astrup's characteristic approach, the painting likely employs the luminous, jewel-toned palette he favored, with careful attention to light modeling the planes of his face. The background recedes into soft abstraction, keeping focus on the subject's penetrating stare. There's an intensity here that sidesteps conventional vanity; this is a man looking inward, not outward to flatter or perform.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe self-portrait occupies a particular place in Astrup's work. While he's celebrated for his visionary depictions of Norwegian landscape and folklore—those pagan Midsummer fires, the rural labor he witnessed—these intimate studies of his own face reveal the modernist sensibility underlying his romanticism. By the 1920s, Astrup was working at the height of his powers while confined to the rural isolation of Jølster, a geography both beloved and limiting. This portrait speaks to that tension: the artist as observer, philosopher, outsider. It's a work that bridges his academic training in Paris and his return to Norway's unforgiving terrain, suggesting that the landscape wasn't merely external—it lived inside him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis print belongs in a study or intimate living space where natural light can animate its surface. It speaks to anyone drawn to the introspective lives of artists—to those who understand that creative vision demands a certain solitary intensity. The mood is contemplative, never melancholic; the pipe suggests calm resolve rather than doubt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Nicolai Astrup\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew painters have rendered the strange, luminous light of a Norwegian summer night quite like this one. Born in 1880 in the western fjord village of Jølster, he trained briefly in Kristiania and Paris before returning home for good, building a life and a body of work rooted in the same patch of landscape. His paintings and woodcuts of midsummer gardens, marsh marigolds and bonfire nights pull from folk tradition and the post-Impressionist palette he absorbed abroad, then bend both toward something distinctly his own. For viewers today, the appeal is immediate: dense colour, deep stillness, and a sense of place that feels both ancient and alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Nicolai Astrup","offers":[{"title":"18\" x 24\" \/ Stretched Canvas","offer_id":41554982699095,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_18x24_-StretchedCanvas","price":90.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" \/ Fine Art Paper","offer_id":41554982731863,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_18x24_-FineArtPaper","price":59.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" \/ Antiqua Frame","offer_id":41554982764631,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_18x24_-AntiquaFrame","price":113.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" \/ Hickory Frame","offer_id":41554982797399,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_18x24_-HickoryFrame","price":113.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" \/ Raven Frame","offer_id":41554982830167,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_18x24_-RavenFrame","price":113.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 36\" \/ Stretched Canvas","offer_id":41554982895703,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_24x36_-StretchedCanvas","price":151.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 36\" \/ Fine Art Paper","offer_id":41554982928471,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_24x36_-FineArtPaper","price":90.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 36\" \/ Antiqua Frame","offer_id":41554982961239,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_24x36_-AntiquaFrame","price":189.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 36\" \/ Hickory Frame","offer_id":41554982994007,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_24x36_-HickoryFrame","price":189.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 48\" \/ Stretched Canvas","offer_id":41554983026775,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_36x48_-StretchedCanvas","price":303.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 48\" \/ Fine Art Paper","offer_id":41554983059543,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_36x48_-FineArtPaper","price":151.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 48\" \/ Antiqua Frame","offer_id":41554983092311,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_36x48_-AntiquaFrame","price":380.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 48\" \/ Hickory Frame","offer_id":41554983125079,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_36x48_-HickoryFrame","price":380.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 36\" \/ Raven Frame","offer_id":43297964294231,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_24x36_-RavenFrame","price":189.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"36\" x 48\" \/ Raven Frame","offer_id":43297964326999,"sku":"self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup-_36x48_-RavenFrame","price":380.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2536\/4678\/products\/fine-art-print-self-portrait-with-pipe-by-nicolai-astrup-1171186853.jpg?v=1749737045","url":"https:\/\/trulyart.com\/en-gb\/products\/self-portrait-with-pipe-nicolai-astrup","provider":"Truly Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}