Carl Larsson, executed 1884. Watercolour and charcoal on paper glued on canvas
"Passion". 75 x 105 cm.
Paper laid down on canvas. Damages. Repairs
Provenance
Professor Carl Wahlund (1846-1913), Uppsala.
Kalmar Nation, Uppsala (deposited at Carolina Rediviva since 1986).
Literature
Ulwa Neergaard, ”Carl Larsson: signerat med pensel och penna”, 1999, listed in the catalogue under 1884, p. 25 cat no. 200.
Georg Pauli, ”Konstnärsbrev II”, Stockholm 1928, p.21f.
Börjeson, Bertil "Från Grèz till 'Bortom Bullret'. Några anteckningar om Kalmar Nations Carl Larsson-kartonger.", in Kalmar Nations skriftserie XXVII, 1950, p. 42-45.
Börjeson, Bertil, ”De nordiska konstnärernas jul i Paris 1882. Ett postscriptum till uppsatsen Från Grèz till Bortom bullret”, in Kalmar nations skriftserie XXIX, 1952, p. 30-36.
Nationalmuseum, Torsten Gunnarsson, "Carl Larsson, En utställning ingående i Nationalmuseums 200-årsjubileum", Stockholm, 1992, p 44
Gunnarsson, Torsten. (red.), The painters in Grez-sur-Loing, Tokyo, 2000.
Meister, Anna, Rech, Carina & Sidén, Karin (red.), Grez-sur-Loing: konst och relationer, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, 2019, p 173f.
More information
I denna kartong har vi som inte var med på julfesten i Grez 1884 lite svårare att orientera oss. Bertil Börjeson som har skrivit mycket om kartongerna antar att kvinnan är Ville Vallgrens hustru Antoinette Vallgren, f. Råström och att mannen till höger är en läkare men har inte funnit någon vidare förklaring till vad som legat bakom motivet som avbildar ett triangeldrama. Det vi måste anta är att händelsen inte var alltför allvarlig då Carl Larsson inkluderat det i bildprogrammet. Ett frö till betydelsen kan ligga i att den finska skulptören Ville Vallgren var den person som startade bröllopsyran i den svenska kolonin då han efter en väldigt kort bekantskap friade till Antoinette Råström. Vallgren lär ha formulerat maximen "om man ej är fräck, så blir ingenting av här i världen, allra minst ett giftermål".
More about Carl Larsson
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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