"Röda Moln" ("Red clouds", motif from Båstad)
Signed N Kreuger and dated 1908. Oil on canvas 90 x 149 cm.
Provenance
Fritzes Kungl. Hovbokhandel, Stockholm.
Nordén Auktioner, Stockholm, 6 October 1993, lot 19.
Exhibitions
Konstnärsförbundet, Stockholm, "Nils Kreuger-utställningen", October-November 1908, cat. no. 19.
Literature
Kjell Boström, "Nils Kreuger", 1948, listed in the catalogue section p. 272, cat. no. 440.
More information
During the summers of 1906 and 1907, Nils Kreuger stayed in Båstad, drawn by the magnificent landscape. In a letter to his friend Karl Nordström in July 1907, he wrote: "Hallandsås is magnificent and offers an incalculable number of motifs - one becomes almost dizzy from the abundance of good - and over the ridge often lie the most varying tones, deep and heavy with dragging dark clouds or with bright light haze ..."
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