Eric Hallström
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View over Venice.
Signed E-Hallström. Panel 47 x 69 cm.
Provenance
From the collection of the artist Sven Ljungberg.
Exhibitions
Färg och Form, no 446.
Riksförbundet för bildande konst, exhibition no 52.
Ljungbergmuseet, Ljungby, "Sven Ljungberg. En konstnär och hans samling", 4 June - 28 August 2011.
More information
1921 och 1922 reste Hallström till Italien. Det var ”den nya saklighetens” och turistresornas tid för de svenska målarna. Verken från den här tiden är stramare, mer kulissartade och sakliga än Hallströms tidiga målningar. I auktionens målning glider gondolerna stillsamt fram som över en teaterscen och gestalterna liknar staffagefigurer. Jmfr ”Stadsbild, Italien”, 1922 i Moderna Museets samlingar i Stockholm.
Artist
Eric Hallström counts as one of the leading representatives for the Swedish naivism. He had his debut in 1917. Through his painting he communicates his memories from the outskirts of Stockholm, a motif he worked with for a long time. Hallström came into contact with Ångermanland through Pelle Molin's "Ådalens poesi", and shortly after he travelled there to experience the dark forests, the undulating horizon, powerful rivers and log floating, which later took shape in his Stockholm studio. His compositions become lighter when he traveled to South Africa and Italy in the 1920s, approaching a new objectivity, causing the naive elements to disappear. Hallström's storytelling talent is revived in the 1930s when he, using strong colors in a primitive style, expresses his experiences of people and landscapes.
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