Late in Autumn

Sent på høst

Translation: Late in Autumn
Artist: Sigurd Bergmann
Year: 1984
Medium: Watercolour on textured paper

In Sent på høst, Sigurd captures the final flare of autumn before the landscape surrenders to winter’s stillness. The forest blazes with fading glory — amber, rust, ochre, and violet dance across the trees, softly dissolving into the cool, pale air that encroaches from below. It’s a delicate farewell, a time of beauty on the edge of retreat.

The composition breathes with softness and motion, as if the trees themselves are exhaling the season’s last warmth. One can sense the quiet of the woods, the brittle leaves underfoot, and the melancholic promise that snow is near. There’s something both vivid and ghostlike here — a painting that balances fullness and fading, life and letting go.

Sigurd’s mastery lies in his ability to render emotion through atmosphere. Sent på høst is a love letter to transience — an embrace of nature’s rhythms and the dignity in decline.