Bruno Liljefors, Mallards amongst Water lilies.

Mallards amongst Water lilies.

Signed by Bruno Liljefors and dated 1917. Oil on canvas, 73 x 100 cm.

Alkuperä - Provenienssi

Stockholms Auktionsverk, Kvalitetsauktion 10 - 14 November 1970, lot 574.
Bukowski Auktioner, Klassiska höstauktionen 583, 2-5 December 2014, lot 694.

Kirjallisuus

Martha Hill, "Bruno Liljefors. The Peerless Eye", 1987, illustrated in colour p. 140.
Allan Ellenius, "Bruno Liljefors. Naturen som livsrum", 1996, mentioned and illustrated in colour p. 206-207.

Muut tiedot

Ellenius writes the following about the auction's current painting: "It is dusk, as so often in the images of the lives of duck flocks in reeds and shoreline vegetation. The yellowed sky is reflected in an intricate weave of dark shadow fields and water lily leaves. Around the ducks, the surface is broken by a cobalt blue ripple that suggests the direction of the flock's movement across the still water. With maintained naturalism, the fields and patches of colour live their own life on the picture surface. Claude Monet's renowned water lily ponds in Giverny indicate both points of contact and differences in perceptions of nature."

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