The artist Irène K:son Ullberg lived between 1930 and 2022. She is known for her colorism and “musicality” in her paintings framed by poetry with an inspiration of Monet and Chagall. It's about realism and poetry. Her art spans many media such as oil, watercolor, etching, drawing and lithography, but her most important works are her oil paintings, especially her landscapes and watercolors also including stories of people. She was active mostly in Sweden but travelled and worked extensively in France, Italy and Greece. Irène believed that an artist's task is to emphasize the beauty of nature and doing so in both realism and poetry.

Representation

Muséum of National Art, Stockholm

Muséum of Modern Art, Stockholm

The art collections of the State of Sweden

L’institut Tessin (”Svenska Institutet”), Paris, France

Prizes and Grants

2nd price in the Nordic lithography competition for young artists at age of 27, 1957

The first Culture Price of Katrineholms-Kuriren, 1977

The Swedish Female Artists stipend, 1976

The Royal Academy for the Free Arts, stipend trip to Grez-sur-Loing, France (the location of Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson and Bruno Liljefors, school of Nordic painters)

Artists’ grants to France, Greece and Italy (Rome, San Michele)