Carl Larsson
"På klassisk mark"
Executed 1882. Watercolour and charcoal on paper glued on canvas 78.5 x 65 cm.
Provenance
Professor Carl Wahlund (1846-1913), Uppsala.
Kalmar Nation, Uppsala (deposited at Carolina Rediviva since 1986).
Literature
Ulwa Neergaard, ”Carl Larsson: signerat med pensel och penna”, 1999, listed in the catalogue under 1884, 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
Ingel Fallstedt (1848-1899) var en skulptör som utbildade sig i Sverige men verkade större delen av sitt, relativt korta, liv på kontinenten. Vid tiden för julfesten i Grez hade han under en period befunnit sig i Italien, därav titeln på kartongen ”På klassisk mark”, eller som Spada beskriver kartongen i artikeln från 1883: "Skulptören F vandrande kring Peterskyrkan och åtföljd af sina trogna hundar". Under slutet av 1880-talet bosatte Fallstedt sig i Köpenhamn där han fick ett flertal beställningar åt det danska hovet. 1897 fick skulptören uppdraget som kom att bli hans sista – John Ericsson-skulpturen i Göteborg. Den skulle gjutas i brons, ett material Fallstedt inte var van vid och trots hårt arbete refuserades hans förslag och hans mentala hälsa försämrades i samma period så pass mycket att han tog sitt liv.
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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