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Carl Larsson

(Sweden, 1853-1919)
Estimate
30 000 - 35 000 SEK
2 660 - 3 110 EUR
2 810 - 3 270 USD
Hammer price
26 000 SEK
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Carl Larsson
(Sweden, 1853-1919)

Sketch for "The Guardian Angel"

Signed C.L. and dated 1898 as well as with dedication: " 'just for fun' till vännen C.U. Palm sept 1898 Carl Larsson". Pencil on paper 51 x 39 cm.

Provenance

Originally in the collection of Carl Ulrik Palm (1864-1954, owner of Bukowskis' 1900-1905), Stockholm (as a gift directly from the artist).
By descent.

Exhibitions

Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Larsson. Minnesutställning ", September - October 1953, no. 503.

Literature

Hjert & Hjert, "Carl Larsson. Graphic Works. A Complete Catalogue", 1983, compare with the etching "The Guardian Angel", catalogued and illustrated pp. 106-107, no. 41.
Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, compare with the etching "Skyddsängeln", listed in the catalogue under year 1898, p. 75, no. 875.

More information

The lot is a preparatory study for the etching "The Guardian Angel" executed in the same year.

One copy of the etching included in this lot.

Artist

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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