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Eric Hallström

(Sweden, 1893-1946)
Estimate
1 500 000 - 2 000 000 SEK
134 000 - 179 000 EUR
142 000 - 189 000 USD
Hammer price
1 100 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Eric Hallström
(Sweden, 1893-1946)

"Tegelbacken" (Tegelbacken, Stockholm)

Signed E Hallström. Executed in 1919. Panel 67 x 106.5 cm.

Provenance

Earlier in the collection of Anders Aleby, Stockholm.
Private collection, San Francisco.
After private collection, Sweden.

Exhibitions

Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Eric Hallströms retrospektiva utställning", 20 April - 12 May 1946.
Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, "Eric Hallström", 6-28 February 1965, cat no. 28.

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Designer

Eric Hallström counts as one of the leading representatives for the Swedish naivism. He had his debut in 1917. Through his painting he communicates his memories from the outskirts of Stockholm, a motif he worked with for a long time. Hallström came into contact with Ångermanland through Pelle Molin's "Ådalens poesi", and shortly after he travelled there to experience the dark forests, the undulating horizon, powerful rivers and log floating, which later took shape in his Stockholm studio. His compositions become lighter when he traveled to South Africa and Italy in the 1920s, approaching a new objectivity, causing the naive elements to disappear. Hallström's storytelling talent is revived in the 1930s when he, using strong colors in a primitive style, expresses his experiences of people and landscapes.

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