September Day in the Mountains

Septemberdag i fjellet (2009)

Pastel on paper
Sigurd Bergmann

With a sweeping gaze across layers of rust-orange trees, lush green valleys, and distant blue peaks, Sigurd Bergmann’s Septemberdag i fjellet captures that fleeting brilliance of autumn’s arrival in the Norwegian mountains. The trees blaze with fiery color in the foreground, giving way to a serene lake and an endless forest rolling toward soft blue heights beneath a sky brushed with billowing clouds.

There’s a sense of motion here — not of wind or wildlife, but of time itself shifting. September, in Bergmann’s hands, becomes a vivid conversation between summer’s retreat and autumn’s bold arrival. A rare harmony of bold texture and precise layering, this work is a stunning example of his late-career mastery with pastel.