Carl Larsson
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CARL LARSSON, illustrated travel story, "Från Stockholm till Messina" (From Stockholm to Messina), 1886.
Fifteen leafes illustrated travel depiction with 83 sketches.
The motifs show travel companions and scenery. Full binding with gilded title "Teckningar af Carl Larsson".
22,5 x 29 cm.
Leafs with browning. Some stains, minor folding and damage at borders with some tearing.
Literature
"SVEA. Folk-kalender för 1887", 1886, pp. 79-108.
Carl Larsson, "De Mina och annat Gammalt krafs", 1919, pp. 111-123.
Carl Larsson, "Från Stockholm till Messina", 1948.
All the three above mentioned books enclosed with this lot.
Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, listed in the catalogue under year 1886, p. 30, no. 256.
More information
The journey to Paris started in Stockholm on 1 March 1886 with the artist and friend Ernst Josephson. From Paris to Italy Carl Larsson continued with Klas Fåhraeus with the plan to visit Northern Africa. In Messina they nearly got into a Colera quarantine and therefore changed plans and went back to Paris.
Artist
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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