Peter Dahl
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"The bath" (Bad)
Signed Peter Dahl and dated -67. Canvas 89 x 116 cm.
Literature
Folke Edwards, "Peter Dahl", Stockholm, 1996, illustrated in colour p. 57.
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Folke Edwards har skrivit om målningen "Bad":
"Här återerövrar Peter för första gången sina förlorade glansdagar och målar sex välutrustade unga damer som kråmar sig i något som ser ut som ett gigantiskt svart badkar. Fonden är neutral och kunde lika gärna vara en himmel som en vägg. Ett släpljus uppifrån framhäver kvinnornas behag och den gungande rytmen i kropparnas samordnade men ändå självständiga rörelser. Ljusföringen, den skimrande huden och det lätta sinnliga handlaget kan erinra om Anders Zorns mer skabrösa aktstudier, men med sin oblyga nakenhet och sin svängande rytm är målningen först och sist 60-tal - med associationer till musikalen "Hair" och till hippie-rörelsens försök att finna ett sensuellt, ekologiskt och pacifistiskt alternativ till västerlandets puritanism och imperialism."
Artist
Peter Dahl is painter, printmaker, sculptor, and author. He was born in Oslo and came to Stockholm during the war years of the 1940s, studying at cadémie Libre in 1957 and then attended the Royal Institute of Art from 1958 to 1963 under the guidance of Lennart Rhode. He worked as a teacher at Gelesborg’s school during the 60s and 70s, and was the head professor of painting at Valand Art Academy in Gothenburg from 1975-79. Dahl paints in an expressive, realistic style with bright colours, sensual figure compositions, his art a vessel for his criticism towards upper class luxury and petty bourgeois environments. Influenced by the expressionism of Francis Bacon, he depicted the sequence of events in Medelsvensson's daydreams about "the sweet life" in the upper social group in a series of images. Over the years, Peter Dahl continued with thematic painting. From 1981 to 1984, he illustrated Fredman's Epistles in 87 pictures.
He is outgoing and often depicts his own life with a touch of self-irony. His work is rooted in Swedish tradition, often revisiting and renewing old themes. In recent years, his style has become softer and more sensual, with his dance and bacchanalian motifs taking on a Rococo-like quality. As a printmaker, Dahl is particularly known for his congenial illustrations of Bellman's "Fredman's Epistles." Peter Dahl is considered one of the great artists of our time, immensely productive and consistently popular.
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