Carl Larsson
"Ofrivillig skilsmässa"
Executed 1882. Watecolour and charcoal on paper glued on canvas 65 x 90 cm.
Provenance
Professor Carl Wahlund (1846-1913), Uppsala.
Kalmar Nation, Uppsala (deposited at Carolina Rediviva since 1986).
Exhibitions
Nationalmuseum, Torsten Gunnarsson, "Carl Larsson, En utställning ingående i Nationalmuseums 200-årsjubileum", Stockholm, 1992, cat. no 5.
Literature
Ulwa Neergaard, ”Carl Larsson: signerat med pensel och penna”, 1999, upptagen i verksförteckningen, p. 25 cat no. 200.
Georg Pauli, ”Konstnärsbrev II”, Stockholm 1928, p.21f.
Börjeson, Bertil "Från Grèz till 'Bortom Bullret'. Några anteckningar om Kalmar Nations Carl Larsson-kartonger.", in Kalmar Nations skriftserie XXVII, 1950, p. 42-45.
Börjeson, Bertil, ”De nordiska konstnärernas jul i Paris 1882. Ett postscriptum till uppsatsen Från Grèz till Bortom bullret”, in Kalmar nations skriftserie XXIX, 1952, p. 30-36.
Nationalmuseum, Torsten Gunnarsson, "Carl Larsson, En utställning ingående i Nationalmuseums 200-årsjubileum", Stockholm, 1992, p 44
Gunnarsson, Torsten. (red.), The painters in Grez-sur-Loing, Tokyo, 2000.
Meister, Anna, Rech, Carina & Sidén, Karin (red.), Grez-sur-Loing: konst och relationer, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, 2019, p. 173f.
More information
Denna kartong beskriver ensamheten efter att vännerna lämnat Paris, vilket vi ser i den undre bilden där Carl Wahlund sitter ensam på Restaurant des Lias. I den övre bilden är det livets glada dagar i goda vänners lag och runt punschskålen ses från vänster: (troligen) Axel Borg, en oidentifierad person sjungande "Rio de Janeiro", Johan Ericson, Carl Larsson, bakom punschbålen skulptören Ingel Fallstedt, Ernst Josephson sjungande "Per Svinaherde", Allan Österlind, John Börjeson i pipskägg, August Hagborg samt Hugo Birger med ett glas i handen. Med ryggen mot betraktaren Carl Skånberg. I Spadas text om julfesten i Gréz 1882 (publicerad 9 januari 1883) omnämns denna kartong som "'Hörnan' förr och nu". Bertil Börjesson skriver följande om Spadas titel från 1883: ""'Förr' bör tolkas som år 1878 eller däromkring; 'Hörnans' roll som stamlokus för svenskarna i Paris övertogs under 1880-talet förra hälft av Restaurant 'Molle'" (Börjesson, sid 31).
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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