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Midsummer Night (painting)

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Bonfire celebrating Midsummer Night
Yearcompleted 1926
Mediumpaper
Dimensions89 cm (35 in) × 105 cm (41 in)
Accession No.NG.M.03609 Edit this on Wikidata

Midsummer Night (Norwegian - Jonsokbål) is an oil on paper painting by the Norwegian artist Nikolai Astrup. It shows the traditional bonfire for Saint John's Eve — sometimes referred to as Midsummer Night - in a valley at Jølster in Norway, the artist's hometown, to which he had returned in 1902. It was begun in 1912 and completed in 1926. It has been in the National Gallery of Norway since 1984.

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