"Evening before the Storm, September"
Signed N. Kreuger and dated 1893. Oil on canvas 62.5 x 93 cm.
Provenance
The collections of Engineer Lars Matton, Gävle, Sweden; Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, Sale 427, "Höstauktionen", 30 October - 2 November 1984, lot 120 (under the title "Septemberkväll"); Per Ekströmmuseet, Mörbylånga, Sweden.
Exhibitions
Västra Trädgårdsgatan, Stockholm, Konstnärsförbundet (The Artists Association), Stockholm, 1894 (the exhibition opened on 5 April), no. 55; Liljevalchs Konsthall (Liljevalchs Public Art Gallery), Stockholm, "Christian Eriksson och Nils Kreuger", 7-25 March 1928, no. 142 (under the title "Septemberafton"); Moser & Klang, Stockholm at Shepherd Gallery, New York, "The Swedish Vision. Landscape and figurative painting 1885-1920", autumn 1985; Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz, " 'Sprache der Seele' - Schwedische Landschaftsmalerei", 27 April - 11 June 1995, no. 53; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Impressionismen och Norden. Det sena 1800-talets franska avantgardekonst och konsten i norden 1870-1920", 25 September 2002 - 19 January 2003, no. 114; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, "Impressionismen och Norden. Det sena 1800-talets franska avantgardekonst och konsten i norden 1870-1920", 21 February - 25 May 2003, no. 114; Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Nils Kreuger (1858-1930)", 17 September 2004 - 9 January 2005, no. 29; Norrköpings Konstmuseum (Norrköping Art Museum, Sweden), "Drömmen om ett landskap", 30 January - 3 April 2005.
Literature
Konst i svenska hem, vol. II, N:o 3, listed and illustrated (under the title "Septemberafton, Varberg") p. 120 under collection 128: "Civilingenjör Lars Matton, Bergsgatan 43, Gävle"; Kjell Boström, "Nils Kreuger", 1948, mentioned p. 129, illustrated half page p. 131 (under the title "Afton bådande storm") and listed in the catalogue p. 241, no. 219; Sixten Strömbom, "Nationalromantik och radikalism. Konstnärsförbundets historia 1891-1920", 1965, mentioned p. 479; (Ed.) Torsten Gunnarsson and Per Hedström, "Impressionismen och Norden", 2002, illustrated half page in colour, p. 89; (Ed.) Torsten Gunnarsson and Per Hedström, "Impressionism and the North", 2002, illustrated half page in colour p. 89; (Ed.) Hans Henrik Brummer, "Nils Kreuger", mentioned and illustrated in colour p. 102 as well as listed in the catalogue pp. 187-188.
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