Hotel Holt, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Hotel Holt, Reykjavik, Iceland
Myrdalsjokull Glacier, oil on masonite by Asgrimur Jonsson
Women Salting Herring, 1940, Oil on Canvas, by Jon Borleifsson
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The Hotel Holt is a small intimate hotel with 42 rooms, including 12 suites. All rooms, lounges, conference facilites and hallways are filled with 300 original works of Icelandic art, representing the largest privately owned art collection in Iceland.
Collection of paintings, wall reliefs, sculpture. The collection was assembled by the hotel's founder Thorvaldur Gudmundsson, and presents a panorama of modern Icelandic art from its 19th century beginnings to the present day.
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It includes a unique selection of paintings and drawings by Johannes S. Kjarval (1885 - 1972).
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Migrating Birds, 1980, Oil on Canvas
by Eirikur Smith
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Landscape by A. Rasmussen
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