Gottfrid Kallstenius
Garden scene from Grez
Signed G. Kallstenius and dated Paris 1892. Also signed and dated in pencil in the upper right corner. Canvas 120 x 98 cm.
Provenance
Pharmacist Mrs. Sara Lapidus, Stockholm.
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 389, "Förteckning över några synnerligen värdefulla samlingar", 10-13 November 1971, lot 88 (under the title "Vårlandskap", illustrated plate 14).
Private collection.
Exhibitions
(Probably) Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Måleri från 1880- och 1890-talen", 21 March - 6 April 1931, no. 214 (under the title "Trädgård, Paris", 1892).
Västerviks Stadshotell, "Minnesutställningen över Gottfrid Kallstenius", 15 June - 13 August 1961, no. 35.
Literature
Åsa Frosterud Jägerhorn, "I tusen tallars skugga", 2010, compare "Ung kärlek" (earlier in the collections of Klas Fåhraeus, Villa Högberga, Lidingö, nowadays belonging to Högberga gård).
More information
The painting is a preparatory study for the famous "Ung kärlek" ("Vår", "Frieriet") executed the same year (oil on canvas ca 104 x 234 cm), earlier in the celebrated collections of Klas Fåhraeus and nowadays belonging to Högberga gård, Lidingö.