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Carl Larsson

(Sweden, 1853-1919)
Estimate
10 000 - 12 000 SEK
908 - 1 090 EUR
965 - 1 160 USD
Hammer price
70 000 SEK
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Carl Larsson
(Sweden, 1853-1919)

Thorsten Laurin

Signed C.L. within circle with additional dedication: "Till min käre vän Thorsten Laurin" and dated nov. 1908. Charcoal and indian ink on paper 45 x 34.5 cm.

Provenance

Originally in the Collections of Managing Director Thorsten Laurin, villa Ekarne, Djurgården, Stockholm.
Subsequently by descent.

Exhibitions

Sällskapet Iduns porträttutställning, 1912, no. 165.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Larsson. Minnesutställning", 6 March - 5 April 1920, no. 239.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Larsson. Minnesutställning", utställning anordnad i samarbete med Nationalmuseum, 1953, no. 296a.

Literature

Ragnar Hoppe, "Katalog över Thorsten Laurins samling av måleri och skulptur", 1936, catalogued, no. 137, p. 68.
Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, catalogued under year 1908, no. 1256, p. 115.

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Designer

Carl Larsson is considered one of the greatest Swedish artists of all time. He was born in Gamla Stan in Stockholm and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in the years 1866-76. After his studies in Stockholm, he traveled to France and settled in Grèz-sur-Loing. There he mainly painted garden motifs. In France, he met his future wife Karin Bergöö, who was also an artist and came to mean a lot for his artistry. Already during his student years, he made a living as a photo retoucher and cartoonist in the press. It was also during his studies that Larsson got to know Anders Zorn and Bruno Liljefors, together the three are usually called the ABC artists. At the end of the 1880s, Carl and Karin were given "Lilla Hyttnäs" in Sundborn outside Falun by Karin's father, and this is where Larsson's most famous watercolors depicting his family were created. The motifs often depict sunny landscapes with children, crayfish fishing, meals in the green and interior scenes. Larsson is represented, among other, in the National Museum, where "Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm" and "Midvinterblot" fills the stairwell. Represented mainly at the National Museum in Stockholm and at the Gothenburg Art Museum.

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