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Carl Larsson

(Sweden, 1853-1919)
Estimate
425 000 - 450 000 SEK
37 800 - 40 000 EUR
39 000 - 41 300 USD
Hammer price
720 000 SEK
Purchasing info
Carl Larsson
(Sweden, 1853-1919)

"Uppenbarelse" (Revelation)

Signed C.L within a circle and dated 1917. Canvas 100 x 70 cm.

Provenance

Originally in Fritzes Kungl. Hovbokhandel, Stockholm (acquired by Managing Director Strandman directly from the artist during a visit in Sundborn, April 1917).
Private collection (probably acquired at Fritzes).
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 375, "Vårauktionen", 7-9 April 1965, lot 79 (under the title "Meditation"), illustrated full page in the catalogue (Pl. 12).
Private collection (acquired at the above Sale).

Literature

Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, catalogued in the supplement under year 1917, p. 164, no. 1686.

More information

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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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