Peter Dahl
Covered by droit de suite
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"Lampljus"
Signed Peter Dahl and dated 1987. Canvas 150 x 200 cm.
Provenance
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Auction 543, Moderna Vårauktionen, 2007, cat. no 557.
Private Collection.
Literature
Galerie Aix, Stockholm, "Peter Dahl Arbeten - Works 1985-1987", 1987, illustrated full page in color p. 23.
More information
In the mid-1980s, Peter Dahl painted the famous Bellman-suite, consisting of large canvases filled with festive and sensual figure scenes inspired by Carl Gustav Pilo and Johan Tobias Sergel. The theme in the Bellman paintings continued to captivate Dahl in the following years, in paintings such as "Paris mutas," 1985, and the bacchanalian scene "Löst prat," 1987.
Folke Edwards writes, "At the same time as these festive and sensual images, Dahl painted a series of bourgeois interiors with women in different situations. Gone are Bellman's and Dionysus's sensual women. Instead, these women are portrayed as transparent, weightless, refined, concerned with their dignity. 'Everything rests, the air stands still, time has ceased, and nothing surprising can happen.'" (Folke Edwards, "Peter Dahl," 1996, p. 127