Jenny Nyström
"Gosse i vit sjömanskostym"/Porträtt av Axel Claesson ("Boy in a white sailor suit"/Portrait of Axel Claesson)
Signed Jenny Nyström and dated -89. Pastel on paper mounted on canvas 118 x 70 cm.
Provenance
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, auction 522, "Höstauktionen", 4-6 December 2001, lot no 184.
Private collection, Sweden.
Exhibitions
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Jenny Nyström", 26 December 1977 - 12 February 1978.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Jenny Nyström. Målaren och illustratören", 10 October 1996 - 19 July 1997, cat no 18.
Literature
Stig Lindholm, "Jenny Nyströms samlade verk. Med penseln som trollspö. Del I - Årssignerad konst, böcker, kalendrar och tidningar", 2004, listed as no 15.
Nationalmuseum 1996-97, "Jenny Nyström - målaren och illustratören", illustrated p 24.
More information
Portrait commissioned by Claesson. Axel Nils was born in 1877 and was 12 years old when the portrait was executed. The painting is extended in size to match the portrait of the sister Ingrid Claesson.