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Carl Larsson

(Sweden, 1853-1919)
Estimate
250 000 - 300 000 SEK
23 000 - 27 600 EUR
23 500 - 28 200 USD
Hammer price
200 000 SEK
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Mark Sjöberg
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Carl Larsson
(Sweden, 1853-1919)

Fru Grosshandlare Eriksson/Kvinna vid cykel (study for "Skolungdomens korum" at Ladugårdsgärde)

Signed C.L and dated 1898. Watercolour, image area 60 x 44 cm.

Provenance

Nordén Auctioner, Scandinavian Art and Antiques, 6 December 1994, lot 73.

Literature

Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson, signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, illustrated p. 241 and listed in catalogue supplement, under the year 1998-1999, p. 74, cat. no. 870.

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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