Ivan Ivarson (1900–1939), born 20 July 1900 on Stampgatan in Gothenburg, died 26 June 1939 at the Courbevoie hospital in Paris. Ivarson belonged to the artist group Gothenburg Colorists. He started at Valand's painting school in Gothenburg in 1922, under Tor Bjurström. Ivarson married in Paris, in February 1928, the sculptor Märta Taube, sister of Evert Taube & Karin Parrow, and they had their son Per together in August of the same year. In the early 1930s, Ivarson spent his summers on Stenungsön in Bohuslän, which would become an important place for their circle of artists. He had already left Carl Kylberg's studio in Helsingör in 1929, which he had borrowed over the winter, and returned to the West Coast and Stenungsön, where he would live next door to his fellow painter Ragnar Sandberg. It was not only the color that Ivarson developed during this time. His brushwork was also in harmony with the color scheme; he let the color flow across the canvas broadly and quickly, intuitively but precisely. His art consisted of a sensitivity that was part of Ivarson's artistry. "Painting is dictating in color - if the color does not play the first role, it can certainly be art - but not painting." But it is the romantic ecstasy of color that has become Ivan Ivarson's character description in the general perception and which has also made him one of the dominant figures among those we usually call the Gothenburg colorists of the 1930s.