"Ett barn" ("A child")
Signed Olof Sager-Nelson and dated Paris 1894. Canvas 32 x 24.3 cm.
Provenance
Pontus och Göthilda Fürstenberg, Gothenburg.
Mrs. Siri Magnus-Lagercrantz, Gothenburg.
Carl Lagercrantz, Uppsala.
By descent to present owner.
Exhibitions
Stockholm, "Konstnärsförbundets åttonde utställning", 1894, cat no 89.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Minnesutställning över målaren Olof Sager-Nelson", November 1915, cat no 13.
Gothenburg Art Museum, "Olof Sager-Nelson och hans samtida. Anywhere out of the world", 19 September 2015 - 24 January 2016.
Thielska galleriet, Stockholm, "Olof Sager-Nelson och hans samtida. Anywhere out of the world", 27 February - 5 June 2016.
Literature
Axel Gauffin, "Olof Sager-Nelson", SAK, 1945, mentioned on p 205 and illustrated full page p 190.
"Konst i svenska hem II", volume 2, listed on p 61 in collection no 3: "Professorska Siri Lagercrantz, Norra Rudbecksgatan 5, Uppsala", listed under the title "Flickhuvud".
Ulf Torell, "Målaren Olof Sager-Nelson och mecenaten Pontus Fürstenberg", 2004, mentioned in the text p 99.
More information
The work is included in the exhibition "Olof Sager-Nelson och hans samtida. Anywhere out of the world" until June 5th 2016. For a private viewing, please contact Andreas Rydén or Cecilia Berggren.
