Portrait of a Man

A portrait of a sitting man who looks at the viewer, wearing a shirt, vest and beret. He smokes a pipe. One hand rests on his thigh, the other supports his head while resting on his knee.

Svarstads art was mostly of cityscapes and different motifs from city life, but he also painted some landscape paintings and some portraits like this one. He was a conservative painter with a naturalistic style and dismissed new art movements like cubism and fauvism.