"Höga träd"
Signed SH. Dated 57 verso. Oil on canvas, 41 x 46 cm.
Dry crack in the lower left corner. Pinhole in the lower right corner.
Provenance
Gummesons Konstgalleri, Stockholm.
Private Collection.
Exhibitions
“Staffan Hallström – One Hundred Paintings”, Konstakademien, Stockholm, 1961. Exhibition 253, catalogue no. 55.
More information
Målningen "Höga träd" (1957) är ett verk inom Staffan Hallströms modernistiska och banbrytande måleri under 1950-talet. Verket från 1957 fångar nämligen hans genombrottstid: Det var under de mest intensiva åren då Hallström hittade sin helt egna stil. Denna stil ledde till hans genombrott på Konstakademien år 1961.
Auktionens målning sammanfattar Staffan Hallströms skaparprocess. Hallström gömde inte sina misstag. Han ändrade, skissade och målade över flera gånger. I "Höga träd" kan man nästan se hur han har letat efter rätt former i färgen. Det gör att bilden känns levande och rörlig än idag.
Målningen valdes ut till Staffan Hallströms viktiga utställningar på Gummesons Konstgalleri i Stockholm, samt på Konstakademin i Stockholm 1961. Målningen är ett tydligt exempel på hur svensk expressionism utvecklades under 1950-talet.
År 1961 fick Staffan Hallström sitt stora publika genombrott med den uppmärksammade separatutställningen Hundra målningar på Konstakademien. Auktionens verk visades vid denna utställning. Samma år valdes han även in som ledamot i Konstakademien.
Utställningen på Konstakademien etablerade Hallström som en centralgestalt i det svenska konstlivet och förknippades starkt med hans nyexpressionistiska bildvärld, där motiv som de ensamma hundarna ("Ingens hundar") ofta återkom.
More about Staffan Hallström
Stephan Hallström supported his painting style with a strong expressive foundation. His paintings arose partly through its materials, but also through his inner psyche. The motifs took shape slowly and rather painstakingly. He revised, sketched anew, and painted over until he finally found a composition and color scheme that had the balance and expression he was seeking. Hallström drew inspiration from Delacroix, Rubens, Goya, and Hill's disease drawings. There is also a trace of Giacometti's drawing of figures and the depiction of intense emotional states.
In Hallströms art the sketching process is very important and his paintings radiate as much line work as painterly poetry. For the artist, revisions were crucial to the final result, and the fact that the creative process is allowed to remain in the finished work makes his paintings still feel very present.
The first version of "Ingens hundar" came in 1953. The artist personifies the dogs which have grouped themselves to protect each other from the greater world. Tall and alert, the dogs raise their gaze to their surroundings and they sniff as much danger as fresh morning air. In this tension of opposites, we find the synthesis of Hallström's painting.
Stig Johansson writes in his book about Staffan Hallström "The ideas and emotional states that drove the creation of "Ingens hundar" made these paintings some of the most original in Swedish art. His motifs and visual concepts remain so unique that they can hardly be compared to anything else."
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