"Kvällen före resan till England" (On the eve of the trip to England)
Signed C.L. within a circle and dated 1909. Watercolour 51 x 73 cm. Original picture frame.
International 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.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 20 February - 4 December 1915.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, "Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style", 23 October 1997 - 18 January 1998.
The composition was one of the full page illustrations in colour in the publication "Åt solsidan", originally published in 1910.
Görel Cavalli-Björkman and Bo Lindwall, "The World of Carl Larsson", 1982, p. 154, illustrated.
"Carl och Karin Larsson. Skapare av ett svenskt ideal" (ed. Michael Snodin and Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark), 1998, compare reproduction from "Åt solsidan", 1909, illustrated in colour p. 129.
Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, catalogued under year 1909, p. 123, no. 1332.
"Baltic Reflections. The Collection of Malmö Konstmuseum. The Era of the Baltic Exhibition 1914", 2014, illustrated in interior photo, half page, p. 84.
The seated girl is Lisbeth, the fourth child of Carl Larsson, born in 1891. The painting shows her on the evening before a trip to England, full of expectation. She is sitting in the room with the 'flower window' at Lilla Hyttnäs in Sundborn, Darlecarlia, the home of the Larsson family from 1901.
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.
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