Carl Larsson
"Kurragömma" (Hide-and-seek)
Signed C.L. Executed in 1898. Watercolour with oil paint 93 x 62 cm.
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Tuontiarvonlisävero (12%) tullaan veloittamaan tämän esineen vasarahinnasta. Lisätietoja saat soittamalla Ruotsin asiakaspalvelumme numeroon +46 8-614 08 00.
Alkuperä - Provenienssi
Mr. Valter Philipson; Wholesale dealer Gösta Lindberg; Miss Märta Lindberg; Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, "Bukowski kvällsauktioner" (Evening Sale), October 19, 1987, lot 21; Nordén Auktioner AB, Stockholm, in cooperation with Sotheby's, Sale 1, May 11, 1992, lot 32; J.E. Safra Collection (acquired at the above sale).
Näyttelyt
Terza Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia, 1899, no. 29; Liljevalchs Konsthall (Liljevalchs Public Art Gallery), Stockholm, "Invigningsutställning. Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn", March-April 1916, no. 33; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Minnesutställning -Carl Larsson", March 6 - April 5, 1920, no. 130; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Larsson. Minnesutställning ", September - October 1953, no. 736.
Kirjallisuus
"Larssons", 1902, illustrated; Ernst Malmberg, "Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn. En återblick", 1919, mentioned p. 21; Georg Nordensvan, "Carl Larsson II. 1890-1919", SAK, 1921, listed in the catalogue, p. 227; Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, illustrated full page in colour p. 235 and listed in the catalogue under year 1898, p. 71, no. 837.
Muut tiedot
"Hide-and-seek" is a veritable tour de force within Carl Larsson’s impressive oeuvre. The artist's granddaughter Ulwa Neergaard has written the following about the boldly cropped composition with the diagonally emphasized perspective:
”The little girl hiding under the table while playing hide-and-seek is Carl Larsson's daughter Lisbeth. The setting is the artist’s atelier at Lilla Hyttnäs in Sundborn. This adorable composition was painted in 1898 when the artist was recovering from a very heavy workload during the previous years. In 1897 Larsson had just completed the prestigious frescoes in the entrance of the Nationalmuseum, as well as carried out the extensive decorations in the ceiling and the lunettes in the Royal Opera in Stockholm. On top of these gargantuan commissions he had also finished twenty-four watercolours depicting the Larsson family at home in Sundborn. These watercolours were intendended for publication in the, nowadays iconic and legendary, book ”Ett hem” (A Home) which came out, to great acclaim, in 1899. The twenty-four illustrations were technically very demanding to carry out since they were made to be reproduced/printed. When painting ”Hide-and-seek” Carl Larsson was, for the first time in a long time, unburdened by any patron's wishes or indeed technical demands related to printing processes and could therefor let his imagination run wild. From a technical painterly point of view he was also liberatingly free in how he delievered the brushstrokes in a composition where he never had to worry too much about either motif or the perspective”.