The Spring Classic Sale, Stockholm 568

Auction: 12 – 15 June 2012 | Viewing: 2 – 11 June 2012

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46. August Strindberg 1849-1912 The Birch Tree I (Autumn).

Signed with Strindberg's seal in sealing wax on the reverse. Painted in Stockholm in 1902. Oil on wood panel 33 x 23 cm.

  • Department: Art
  • Auction: 12 June 2012, lot 46
  • Viewing: 2 – 11 June 2012
  • Estimate: SEK 4 000 000 - 5 000 000 / € 426 450 - 533 050
  • Price realized:

    (incl. buyer's premium)

     SEK 8 620 000 / € 919 000
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Provenance

Mrs Inez Ahlquist (Harriet Bosse's sister and the aunt of Strindberg's and Bosse's daughter Anne-Marie), Stockholm.
Mrs Anne-Marie Strindberg-Wyller, Oslo/Stockholm (by inheritance from the above mentioned).
Bukowskis, Stockholm, Sale 411, 30 October 1979, lot 164 (illustrated full page in the plate section, Pl. 44).
Private collection (acquired at the above sale).

Exhibitions

Gummesons Konsthall, Stockholm, "Målningar af August Strindberg", 8 - 31 January 1924, no. 32.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Strindberg som målare och modell", 21 January - February 1949, no. 53.
Örebro Centralbibliotek, Rådhuset, Örebro, "Strindberg som målare och modell", 24 February - March 1949.
Lunds Universitets Konstmuseum, "Strindberg som målare och modell", 20 March - April 1949.
Millesgården, Stockholm, "Per Ekström - August Strindberg -yttre och inre landskap", 16 February - 21 May 2000.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Strindberg - målaren och fotografen", 9 February - 13 May 2001, no. 38.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, "Strindberg. Maleren og fotografen", 9 June - 16 September 2001.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, "Strindberg. Peintre et photographe", 15 October 2001 - 27 January 2002.
Tate Modern, London, "August Strindberg. Painter, photographer, writer", 17 February - 15 May 2005, no. 73.
Bukowskis, Stockholm, "Strindberg på Bukowskis", 2 - 6 May 2012.

Literature

Göran Söderström, "Strindbergs måleri", 1972, catalogued p. 351, no. 93, illustrated full page, p. 189, mentioned p. 188.
Auction catalogue, Bukowskis, Stockholm 1979, illustrated full page, pl. 44.
"Strindberg - målaren och fotografen", exhibition catalogue, Stockholm 2001, catalogued p. 187, illustrated in colour p. 82.
"Strindberg. Painter and photographer", exhibition catalogue 2001, catalogued p. 187, illustrated in colour p. 82.
Olle Granath, "August Strindberg. Painter, photographer, writer", exhibition catalogue, London 2005, catalogued p. 154, illustrated full page in colour, p. 104.
"Strindberg på Bukowskis", exhibition catalogue, Bukowskis, Stockholm 2012, p. 66, illustrated full page in colour, p. 67.