Carl Larsson

Originally owned by N. Hammarström (according to information in the artist's ledger acquired directly from the artist in August 1913 alongside two other watercolours for a total of SEK 4.500).
Private collection.

Gothenburg, 1909.
Internationale Kunstausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, München, June - end of October 1909.
Ed. Schultes Kunstsalon, Berlin, November 1909.
Stockholm, May 1910 (based on information from Georg Nordensvan, the entire work "Åt solsidan" was exhibited on this occasion).
Konstföreningens för södra Sverige Carl Larsson-utställning, Malmö, 1910.
Ausstellung schwed. Künstler im Künstlerbund Hagen, Wien, September 1910.
Esposizione internazionale d'arte, Rom, March - November 1911.
Larensche Kunsthandel, Amsterdam, September 1912.
Carl Larsson-utställningen i Helsingfors och Åbo, (probably January and February) 1913.
Konstutställningen i Hudiksvall, 15 June - 31 July 1913.
Baltiska utställningen, Malmö, 15 May - 4 October 1914.
Svenska konstutställningen Charlottenberg in Copenhagen, November - December 1916, no. 448.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Minnesutställning. Carl Larsson", 6 March - 5 April 1920, no. 236 (under the title "Esbjörn utklädd").

The composition was one of the full page illustrations in colour in the publication "Åt solsidan", originally published in 1910.
Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, illustrated half page in colour, p. 417 and catalogued under year 1908, p. 118, no. 1281.

Carl Larsson is considered one of the greatest Swedish artists of all time. He was born in Gamla Stan in Stockholm and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in the years 1866-76. After his studies in Stockholm, he traveled to France and settled in Grèz-sur-Loing. There he mainly painted garden motifs. In France, he met his future wife Karin Bergöö, who was also an artist and came to mean a lot for his artistry. Already during his student years, he made a living as a photo retoucher and cartoonist in the press. It was also during his studies that Larsson got to know Anders Zorn and Bruno Liljefors, together the three are usually called the ABC artists. At the end of the 1880s, Carl and Karin were given "Lilla Hyttnäs" in Sundborn outside Falun by Karin's father, and this is where Larsson's most famous watercolors depicting his family were created. The motifs often depict sunny landscapes with children, crayfish fishing, meals in the green and interior scenes. Larsson is represented, among other, in the National Museum, where "Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm" and "Midvinterblot" fills the stairwell. Represented mainly at the National Museum in Stockholm and at the Gothenburg Art Museum.