"Cissi Olsson som Anitra"
Signed Dardel. Graphite and ink, image area 56 x 40 cm.
The artist’s wife, Thora Dardel (1899–1995).
The artist Lars Kjellberg (1954–2017), gifted by the above.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Karl Asplund, "Nils Dardel", Part II, SAK 1958, cf. “Cissi Olsson as Anitra”, oil on canvas, listed in the catalogue under 1936, page 264, and illustrated on page 202.
Study for the oil painting "Cissi Olsson as Anitra" (in Peer Gynt) from 1936. Cecilia "Cissi" Olsson (1906–1989) was a Swedish dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She was one of the Royal Theatre's ballet's most prominent dancers during the 1930s and 1940s.