"Vallmor" / "Les coquelicots" (Poppies)
Signed Carl Larsson and dated 1884. Painted in Grez-sur-Loing, France. Watercolour 63.5 x 44 cm.
Originally in the collection of Actor and Art Collector Constant Coquelin (Coquelin Aîné), Paris (commissioned directly from the artist during the Salon in Paris 1884).
Galerie George Petit, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1909 (the Sale of Coquelin's significant art collection).
The collection of Edvard Berg, Paris (acquired at the above Sale).
Mrs. Edvard Berg, Paris.
Private collection.
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 410, "Vårauktionen", 25 - 28 April 1979, lot 291.
Private collection (acquired at the above Sale).
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Larsson-Bruno-Liljefors-Anders Zorn", 9 July - 17 August 1930, no. 33.
"Carl Larsson. Skildrad av honom själv i text och bilder. En krönika sammanställd av Harriet och Sven Alfons", 1952, illustrated p. 93.
Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, catalogued p. 23, no. 154.
Per I. Gedin, "Jag Carl Larsson. En biografi av Per I. Gedin", 2011, mentioned p. 99.
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