Pehr Hilleström
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A man who gets shaved & A man pulls out a tooth of another (2)
A pair. The painting with the man who pulls out a tooth is signed Hilleström and dated 1800. Relined canvases, each 51 x 42 cm. Period gilded and bronzed frames.
Provenance
Bukowskis Auctions, auction no 346, 11-13 April 1951, catalogue no 27 and 28, plate 3.
Earlier in Doktor Carl Wettergrens collection, Arboga, Sweden.
Ekon. dr Peter Wallenberg (1926-2015).
Exhibitions
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, "Gustavianskt skildrat av Pehr Hilleström", 28 March - 21 April 1929, catalogue no 189-190. ("En som låter raka sig"), ("En man utdrar en tand på en annan").
Literature
Gerda Cederblom, "Pehr Hilleström som kulturskildrare", Volume I, 1929, catalogue no 77 and 78 (there called "Barberare och fältskär").
In the artists own list of works as catalogue no 868 and 891.
More information
On verso numbered #4 and #5.
