First exhibition in the UK devoted to Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela on view at the National Gallery
(Artdaily.org)

This winter, visitors to the National Gallery can discover a selection of paintings by the Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela in the first exhibition in the UK devoted to this artist. Lake Keitele purchased by the National Gallery in 1999, with its cool, silvery elegance and meditative quality, has become one of the Gallery’s best-loved works and remains the only painting by this artist in a British public collection. `Lake Keitele` has never before been the subject of an in-depth study. In the exhibition all four versions of Gallen-Kallela’s `Lake Keitele` composition are reunited for the first time in the UK and within the context of the artist’s landscape work. Two `Lake Keitele` landscapes have been borrowed from private collections, one of which is on long-term loan to the Gallen-Kallela Museum, near