"Lillan under leksaksträdet"/"Saga" (Lillan underneath the Toy Tree/Fairytale)
Signed and dated I.A.07. Tempera on canvas 40 x 60 cm.
Provenance
Mrs. Eva Arosenius-Dich (the artist's wife, née Adler); Managing director Axel Adler, Gothenburg, Sweden; subsequently by descent.
Exhibitions
Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna (Royal Academy of Arts), Stockholm, "Ivar Arosenius. Minnesutställning", 6 October-November 1926, no. 26; Finlands konstakademi (Finnish Academy of Arts)/Ateneum, Helsinki, 18 November - ?
1926, no. 23; Kunstforeningen, Oslo, beginning of January - ? 1927, no. 23; Göteborgs konstförening (Gothenburg Art Society)/Konsthallen Gothenburg, Sweden 19 February - ? 1927, no. 23; Göteborgs Konstmuseum (Gothenburg Art Museum), Sweden, "Ivar Arosenius 1878 - 1909", 22 November 1958 - 1 February 1959, no. 150; Nationalmuseum (National Gallery of Art), Stockholm, "Ivar Arosenius 1878-1909", 23 February - 30 April 1978, no. 31; Borås Konstmuseum (Borås Art Museum), Sweden, "Ivar Arosenius", 20 November 1988 - 29 January 1989; Malmö Museum, Sweden, "Ivar Arosenius", 12 February - 2 April 1989; Upplands Konstmuseum (Uppland Art Museum), Uppsala, Sweden, "Ivar Arosenius", 16 April - 21 May 1989; Göteborgs Konstmuseum (Gothenburg Art Museum), Sweden, "Amateur/Eldsjäl", 20 May - 17 September 2000; Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Ivar Arosenius", 30 January - 11 April 2010.
Literature
Axel L. Romdahl, "Ivar Arosenius", 1944, illustrated full page under no. 24; Nina Weibull, 'Lillans värld', article in "Ivar Arosenius", exhibition catalogue, Nationalmuseum (National Gallery of Art), Stockholm, 1978, mentioned pp. 150-151 and illustrated p. 151; "Ivar Arosenius", exhibition catalogue, Borås Konstmuseum(Borås Art Museum)/Malmö museum/Upplands konstmuseum (Uppland Art Museum), Sweden, 1988/1989, illustrated full page in colour p. 69; Björn Fredlund, "Ivar Arosenius", 2009, listed in the catalogue under year 1907, p. 202 no. 39.
