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Carl Larsson(Sweden, 1853-1919)
”Vid aftonlampan” / ”Strax före sovdags” (By the night lamp / Just before bedtime)
Hammer price
1 600 000SEK
Estimate
2 000 000 - 2 500 000 SEK

”Vid aftonlampan” / ”Strax före sovdags” (By the night lamp / Just before bedtime)

Signed C.L. within a circle and dated 1908. Watercolour 51 x 72 cm.

Provenance

Private collection.
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 454, "Internationella höstauktionen", 20-23 October 1987, lot 347.
Private collection (acquired at the above Sale).

Exhibitions

Gothenburg, Sweden, 1909.
Internationale Kunstausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, Germany, June - end of October 1909.
Ed. Schultes Kunstsalon, Berlin, November 1909.
Stockholm, May 1910 (based on information from Georg Nordensvan the collection "Åt solsidan" was exhibited on this occasion).
Konstföreningens för södra Sverige Carl Larsson-utställning, Malmö, Sweden, 1910.
Ausstellung schwed. Künstler im Künstlerbund Hagen, Wien, September 1910.
Esposizione internazionale d'arte, Rom, March - November 1911.
Larensche Kunsthandel, Amsterdam, September 1912.
The Carl Larsson Exhibition in Helsinki and Turku, Finland (probably January and February) 1913.
Konstutställningen i Hudiksvall, Sweden, 15 June - 31 July 1913.
Baltiska utställningen, Malmö, Sweden, 15 May - 4 October 1914.

Literature

The motif was used as an illustration, full page in colour, in "Åt solsidan" ("On the Sunny Side"), originally published in 1910.
Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, catalogued under year 1908, p. 115, no. 1262.

More information

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More about Carl Larsson

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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