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Carl Larsson

(Sweden, 1853-1919)
Estimate
2 500 000 - 3 000 000 SEK
223 000 - 268 000 EUR
231 000 - 277 000 USD
Hammer price
1 900 000 SEK
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Andreas Rydén
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Andreas Rydén
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Carl Larsson
(Sweden, 1853-1919)

"Gunlög: Säj, ä' du rädd för mej?"

Signed C.L within a circle and dated 1918. Watercolour 102 x 70.5 cm. Original picture frame.

Provenance

Private collection.
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 454, "Internationella höstauktionen", 20-23 October 1987, lot 20.
Private collection (acquired at the above Sale).
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 488, "Internationella vårauktionen", 17-19 May 1993, lot 157.
Private collection (acquired at the above Sale).

Literature

Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, illustrated in colour, p. 594 and catalogued under year 1918, p. 170, no. 1747.

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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