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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

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.





It includes a unique selection of paintings and drawings by Johannes S. Kjarval (1885 - 1972).


Migrating Birds, 1980, Oil on Canvas
by Eirikur Smith


Landscape by A. Rasmussen