Carl Larsson
CARL LARSSON, etching, signed C.L. in pencil and numbered 27/100. "Boy with sword". Executed 1916. Etat 2.
Plate size circa 27 x 22 cm.
Not examined out of frame. Yellowed. The general impression is good.
Provenance
Collection Hans Erik Börjeson.
Literature
Hjert & Hjert 105.
More information
The etching was based on a watercolour depicting Ulf Hård af Segerstad. State 2: Carl Larsson donated this etching to the Stockholm Home Guard Association. 100 signed and numbered copies.
Artist
Carl Larsson is considered one of the greatest Swedish artists of all time. He was born in Gamla Stan in Stockholm and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in the years 1866-76. After his studies in Stockholm, he traveled to France and settled in Grèz-sur-Loing. There he mainly painted garden motifs. In France, he met his future wife Karin Bergöö, who was also an artist and came to mean a lot for his artistry. Already during his student years, he made a living as a photo retoucher and cartoonist in the press. It was also during his studies that Larsson got to know Anders Zorn and Bruno Liljefors, together the three are usually called the ABC artists. At the end of the 1880s, Carl and Karin were given "Lilla Hyttnäs" in Sundborn outside Falun by Karin's father, and this is where Larsson's most famous watercolors depicting his family were created. The motifs often depict sunny landscapes with children, crayfish fishing, meals in the green and interior scenes. Larsson is represented, among other, in the National Museum, where "Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm" and "Midvinterblot" fills the stairwell. Represented mainly at the National Museum in Stockholm and at the Gothenburg Art Museum.
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