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Ester Almqvist

(Sweden, 1869-1934)
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Ester Almqvist, "Hängbjörken" (The silver birch).
Estimate
80 000 - 100 000 SEK
7 010 - 8 760 EUR
7 290 - 9 120 USD
Hammer price
420 000 SEK
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Ester Almqvist
(Sweden, 1869-1934)

"Hängbjörken" (The silver birch)

Signed Ester Almqvist and dated 1900. Oil on canvas 100 x 110 cm.

Saleroom notice

Not allowed for export.

Provenance

Carl G. Laurin; Lilla Bukowskis, Stockholm, Sale S064, April 25, 1994, lot 545; The Per Ekström Museum, Öland, Sweden; private collection.

Exhibitions

The 1900 Paris Exposition ("L'Exposition Universelle"), April 14 - November 12, 1900; " 'Yngre Konstnärers' (Younger Artists') exhibition", Stockholm, October 1900; "VIII Internationale Kunstausstellung im Königlichen Glaspalast" ("Münchener Secession"), Münich, June 1 - end of October, 1901, no. 235 (under the title "Die Birke"); Konstnärsförbundet, Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden, April-May 1903; Konstnärsförbundet, Copenhagen, 1903; St. Louis World's Fair ("Louisiana Purchase Exposition"), April 30 - November 30, 1904, no. 1 (under the title "The Weeping Birch"); Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Den otroliga verkligheten - 13 kvinnliga pionjärer", October 13, 1994 - January 8, 1995; Göteborgs Konstmuseum (Gothenburg Art Museum), Sweden, "Den otroliga verkligheten - 13 kvinnliga pionjärer", January 21 - March 19, 1995; Jönköpings läns museum (Jönköping County Museum), Sweden, "Ester Almqvist, måleri, teckningar och grafik", January 16 - March 21, 1999; Säfstaholm Castle, Vingåker, Sweden, " 'Jag längtar så att jag kan sprängas' -från nationalromantik till modernism - Ester Almqvist (1869-1934)", June 25 - August 28, 2011; Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Symbolism och dekadens", September 19, 2015 - January 24, 2016, no. 5; Norrköpings Konstmuseum (Norrköping Art Museum), Sweden, "Jag lever i två världar. Ester Almqvist och konstlivet 1890-1934", Spring 2018; Malmö Konstmuseum (Malmö Art Museum), Sweden, "Jag lever i två världar. Ester Almqvist och konstlivet 1890-1934", December 1, 2018 - April 22, 2019.

Literature

Sixten Strömbom, "Nationalromantik och radikalism. Konstnärsförbundets historia 1891-1920", 1965, mentioned p. 472; Birgit Rausing, "Ester Almqvist och hennes krets", 1998, mentioned p. 68-74 and illustrated full page in colour p. 70.

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