OTTO G CARLSUND, gouache och akvarell. Signerad och daterad 32.
"Uppställning med svart flaska och gröna äpplen". 12 x 22 cm.
Ej examinerad ur ram. Gulnad.
Tidigare i arkitekt Nils Einar Erikssons samling, Göteborg, inköpt direkt av konstnären.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm "Otto G Carlsund", 22 september 2007 – 6 januari 2008.
"Konst i svenska hem", vol I, band 11, upptagen sid 561 under samling 988: "Arkitekt Nils Einar Eriksson, Brödragatan 38, Göteborg".
Otto G Carlsund was a Swedish painter, theorist and critic. Whilst in Paris in 1924, he formed a friendship with Fernand Léger, Ozenfant and Piet Mondrian and became the representative of Swedish synthetic cubism, purism, and neoplasticism. It was between the years of 1932 – 45 when Carlsund was the most active as a critic, but rediscovered his passion for nonfigurative painting in his last years. His paintings were often intended as preliminary studies for wall paintings. In 1929, he co-founded the group Art Concret in Paris with van Doesburg and Hélion, publishing its manifesto.
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