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Carl Larsson

(Sweden, 1853-1919)
Estimate
2 000 000 - 2 500 000 SEK
177 000 - 222 000 EUR
187 000 - 234 000 USD
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Carl Larsson
(Sweden, 1853-1919)

Girl with ice skates, interior from the school household, Falun

Signed C.L. and dated 1917. Watercolour on paper mounted on canvas 75 x 52.5 cm.

Saleroom notice

Watercolour on paper mounted on canvas 75 x 52.5 cm.

Provenance

Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 526, "Internationella höstauktionen", 3-6 December 2002, lot 280.
Private collection (acquired at the above Sale).

Exhibitions

Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, exhibition arranged in collaboration with Nationalmuseum, "Carl Larsson. Minnesutställning", Sept-Oct 1953, no. 363.

Literature

Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, catalogued p. 165, no. 1702.

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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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