Gösta Adrian-Nilsson
GÖSTA ADRIAN-NILSSON, sketchpad, 1920/30's, by the artist's own hand inscribed GAN with indian ink on the cover.
Sketchpad with eleven, partly trimmed, sheets (twenty-two pages) comprising in total circa thirty-one varying compositions executed in pencil and indian ink on paper. Motifs depicting, amongst others: cubist compositions (executed on trimmed sheet dated 1932), figure studies, maritime compositions, studies of indians, "folk song" illustrations, street scene with street light and rural scene from the province of Skåne (Scania, in the south of Sweden). Enclosed ten loose sheets with studies in pencil (six) and indian ink (four) on paper and greaseproof paper depicting street scenes, abstract compositions, battleship, tank, canon etc. Outer measurements circa 18.5 x 27 cm.
Minor damages. Uneven wear. Tear/tears. Fold. Creases. Soft handling creases. Trimmed /sheet trimmed/margins trimmed. Time stained. Minor stains. Unknown number of pages torn out/missing.
Provenance
Managing director of Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Harry Runnqvist.
Managing director of Galerie Bonnier, Geneva and Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Jan Runnqvist, Ph. D. (by descent from the above mentioned, his father).
Subsequently by descent.
More information
On display at Arsenalsgatan 2.