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Peter Dahl

(Sweden, 1934-2019)
Peter Dahl
(Sweden, 1934-2019)

Peter Dahl, mixed media on paper, signed

”Fredmans epistel 42: Kortspel på klubben”. 21 x 26 cm.

Not examined out of frame. Pinholes upper middle margin.

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Auktionens akvarell, Peter Dahls tolkning av Fredmans epistel 42, visar en städad salongsmiljö där det sups tämligen måttligt och istället spelas kort. Spelplatsen är ett känt värdshus vid Mälarens södra strand, nära Mälarhöjden i södra Stockholm. Värdshuset erbjöd mat men även natthärbärge, ofta till besättningar från handelsfartyg.

I auktionens akvarell syns Carl Michael Bellman som Mollberg/Mowitz i ett berömt kortspel. Bellman besökte ofta detta värdshus då hans yngre syster Catharina bodde på närliggande Hägerstens Gård, som äkta maka till jurist Claes Arrhén von Kapfelman.

Sällskapet i akvarellen spelar trisett, ett populärt sällskapsspel på 1700-talet, speciellt bland högrestånds-damer. Sällskapet spelar i par sittandes mittemot varandra och samlar så många stick som möjligt.
I auktionens akvarell ser man att Fredman och Fru Wingmark bildar ett par, medan Ulla Winblad och Mollberg är deras motspelare. Spelarna följer färg och högsta kort är trean, därefter följer tvåan, esset, kungen och vidare nedåt. Trumf existerar inte. ”Calad” innebär att ena paret tar hem samtliga stick. Att ta hem alla stick utom ett kallas stramazette.

Fredmans epistel 42 (skriven cirka 1773-1780) innehåller Bellmans enda kända vinterskildring. Evert Taube framförde ofta denna epistel vid sina framträdanden under 1920- och 1930-talen.

Det gamla värdshuset som omsjungs existerar än idag och är numera del av Klubbensborg, en halvö i Mälaren i 1700-talsmiljö med hotell, café och restaurangverksamhet.

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Peter Dahl is painter, printmaker, sculptor, and author. He was born in Oslo and came to Stockholm during the war years of the 1940s, studying at cadémie Libre in 1957 and then attended the Royal Institute of Art from 1958 to 1963 under the guidance of Lennart Rhode. He worked as a teacher at Gelesborg’s school during the 60s and 70s, and was the head professor of painting at Valand Art Academy in Gothenburg from 1975-79. Dahl paints in an expressive, realistic style with bright colours, sensual figure compositions, his art a vessel for his criticism towards upper class luxury and petty bourgeois environments. Influenced by the expressionism of Francis Bacon, he depicted the sequence of events in Medelsvensson's daydreams about "the sweet life" in the upper social group in a series of images. Over the years, Peter Dahl continued with thematic painting. From 1981 to 1984, he illustrated Fredman's Epistles in 87 pictures.

He is outgoing and often depicts his own life with a touch of self-irony. His work is rooted in Swedish tradition, often revisiting and renewing old themes. In recent years, his style has become softer and more sensual, with his dance and bacchanalian motifs taking on a Rococo-like quality. As a printmaker, Dahl is particularly known for his congenial illustrations of Bellman's "Fredman's Epistles." Peter Dahl is considered one of the great artists of our time, immensely productive and consistently popular.

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