Sigrid Hjertén
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"Det blå lokomotivet" (The Blue Locomotive)
Signed Hjertén and Sigrid Hjertén G. On verso signed on stretcher Sigrid Hj. Grünewald. Executed 1919. Canvas 100 x 81 cm.
Exhibitions
Per Ekström-museum, Öland, 1991.
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, 14 July - 10 October 1999, cat no 37.
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sigrid Hjertén - en mästerlig kolorist", 10 February - 26 August 2018, cat. no. 45.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Per Ekström-museet, Öland, 1991, illustrated full page.
Exhibition catalogue, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, 14 July - 10 October 1999, cat no 37, illustrated p. 130.
Anders Wahlgren, "Sigrid Hjertén - en av Sveriges främsta konstnärer", Norstedts, 2008, illustrated p. 19.
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sigrid Hjertén - en mästerlig kolorist", 10 February - 26 August 2018, cat. no. 45, illustrated in the catalogue p. 72.
More information
After the return from Paris in 1911 Sigrid Hjertén and her husband Isaac Grünewald moved to an apartment at Kornhamstorg in Stockholm, but later, between 1915-1919 they settled at Katarinavägen. The apartment and the view outside the window became a recurring part of Hjertén’s motifs. She spent a lot of time at home taking care of their son Iván while her husband traveled and organized exhibitions for the Swedish Matisse pupils. Aside for tender depictions of Iván she painted several fauvist and expressive paintings depicting the changing cityscape outside her window with boats, machines and workers at Skeppsbron. ”Det blå lokomotivet/The blue locomotive” is a magnificent example of that.