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Peter Dahl

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

Peter Dahl, lithograph in colours, signed Peter Dahl.

"N:o 25. Fredmans Epistel. Som är ett försök till en Pastoral i Bacchanalisk smak, skrifven vid Ulla Winblads öfverfart til Djurgården." 42 x 58 cm.

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I Peter Dahls måleri är kulturhistorien ständigt närvarande. Han inspirerades inledningsvis av bland annat Francis Bacons expressionism och under 1980-talet kom berättelserna från Carl Michael Bellmans Fredmans Epistlar att bli dominerande i Peter Dahls konstnärskap.

Auktionens färgstarka och kraftfulla litografi skildrar Fredmans epistel N:o 25 – ”som är ett försök til en Pastoral i Bacchanalisk smak, skrifven vid Ulla Winblads överfart till Djurgården”. Episteln författades i september år 1770 av Carl Michael Bellman och placerades som avslutning i den första gruppen av 25 epistlar.

I epistel 25 skildras Ulla Winblad som en Venus omgiven av diverse olika mytologiska gestalter där hon drar fram genom Neptunus rike, längsmed Stockholms ström i en enkel roddbåt. Epistel nummer 25 ska ha varit inspirerad av François Bouchers berömda målning ”Venus triumf” från 1740, numera i Nationalmuseums samlingar. Peter Dahls tolkning av den gripande händelsen sjuder av liv och rörelse. Ur de skummande vågorna reser sig en blåsvart fisk och solens strålar belyser motivet i varma röda och gula toner.

2019 lämnade Peter Dahl jordelivet. Bakom sig lämnade han en imponerande konstnärsgärning. Han bidrog till den svenska konstscenen som en av Sveriges mest legendariska och färgstarka konstnärer under 1900-talet.

I en artikel i Svenska Dagbladet 18 maj 2019, dagen efter Peter Dahls bortgång citerades Mårten Castenfors beskrivning av Peter Dahl: ”Erotik, alkohol och Bellman, han förkroppsligade det mest svenska så norrman han var”. Peter Dahl var ursprungligen norsk medborgare, men tilldelades 2006 den svenska regeringens förtjänstmedalj Illis quorum för sitt "mångåriga och omfattande samt färgstarka och respektlösa konstnärskap, en bildkonstens Bellman i nutid”.

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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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