Nils Kreuger
"Halmstack på åkern" (Haystack in the field)
Signed N. Kreuger and dated Grèz 1885. Panel 31 x 40 cm.
Provenance
Earlier in the collection of artists Leon and Greta Welamson, Stockholm; by descent.
Exhibitions
(Probably) Theodor Blanchs Konst-Salon, Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, "Från Seinens strand". Svenska artisternas i Paris utställning, April 1885, no. 53 ("4 skizzer [franska motiv]"); Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Opponenterna av 1885. Utställning till sextioårsminnet av det första moderna genombrottet i svensk konst", 16 March - 16 May 1945, no. 267 (one of four paintings in the same frame).
Literature
Viggo Loos, "Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885", SAK, 1945, catalogued p. 345; Kjell Boström, "Nils Kreuger", 1948, catalogued under year 1885, no. 89, p. 228.