Sven X:et Erixson
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"Konvalescens"
Signed Sven Erixson and dated -46. Canvas 74 x 60 cm.
Exhibitions
Hallands Konstmuseum, "Söndrumskolonien", 15-29 September, 1946, cat. no. 27.
Literature
Hugo Palmskiöld, "I konstens tecken", 1990, illustrated p. 72.
More information
Sven X:et Erixson från Tumba räknas som en av 1900-talets stora svenska konstnärer. Han hämtade mycket av sin inspiration i Italien, Spanien och Frankrike. Men även från halländska idyllen Söndrum, där hans naivistiska stil mötte det surrealistiska hos Halmstadgruppen.
En blomstrande konstnärskoloni uppstod när X:et flyttade till sommarstugan i Söndrum 1944: Sven X:et Erixson tillsammans med bland andra Halmstadgruppens Stellan Mörner, Axel och Erik Olsson, Felix Hatz och Egon Möller-Nielsen.
I ”Konvalescens” från 1946 skildrar X:et sitt vardagsrum med utsikt mot badstranden i Söndrum: badhanddukarna är utrullade på stranden, turister och barnfamiljer njuter av den varma sommardagen. X:et omges av en dignande blomsterbukett, som blir målningens färgsprakande och friska blickfång.
Tillsammans med Söndrum-målningar som ”Irma, Sahlins och blåsten” från 1946 och ”Sommar i Söndrum” från 1947 tillhör auktionens målning ”Konvalescens” X:ets koloristiska, halländska mästerverk.
Auktionens målningen premiärvisades på Hallands Konstmuseum i Halmstad hösten 1946, omedelbart efter att målningen slutförts i X:ets ateljé i Söndrum.
Författaren och X:et-experten Leif Magnusson har skrivit boken ”Sven Xet Erixson A – Ö”. På bokstaven ”S” går det att läsa om åren i Söndrum, där Xet tillbringade somrarna från 1944 fram till sin bortgång 1970.
Artist
Sven Erixon, today more commenly known as X, was born in 1899 in Stockholm. He studied to become a decoration painter and art teacher at the Technical School in Stockholm after which he studied at the Higher School of Art and Design alongside study trips to Germany, France, Italy, Spain and North Africa. Despite being an inportant artist amoungst Swedish art, Erixon does not let etiquette and style limit his painting style. His greatest creation is defined by a tempremental style in stark colour patterns. Erixon's paintings balances between impressive, somewhat brutal expressions and a soft lyricism. He is one of the founders of the group Färg och Form, whose primitivist faction he belonged to. With an aura of narrative joy, Erixon recounts his experiences. He had an irresistable desire to share everything that he saw. He was inspired, much like Bror Hjorth of both folk art and mural painting from the middle ages, while also finding inspiration from German expressionism. But he speaks with greatest esteem about Chaim Soutines art. In a multitude of paintings, he conveyed his zest for life, with surfaces filled with swiftly captured figures. During the 1930s, his visual world was filled with family and the idyllic torpor, his canvas became greater and more complete. During the war he painted on butter paper, not only for practicalities sake, but also to take advantage of the slippery reflective surface which the paper supplies. Narration decreased in the 1950s when he was influenced by spontaneity, which in the following years led him to abstract spontaneous painting.
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