"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, 120 av. des Champs Elysées, Paris; private collection; Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 410, "Vårauktionen", 25 - 28 April 1979, lot 291; private collection (acquired at the above Sale); Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 577, "Klassiska Höstauktionen", 3 December 2013, lot 52; private collection.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Larsson-Bruno-Liljefors-Anders Zorn", 9 July - 17 August 1930, no. 33; Petit Palais Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, "Carl Larsson. L'imagier de la Suède", 7 March - 7 June 2014.
"Carl Larsson. Skildrad av honom själv i text och bilder. En krönika sammanställd av Harriet och Sven Alfons", 1952, illustrated p. 93; "Carl Larsson: JAG -En bok om och på både gott och ont", 1985, illustrated full page in colour p. 44; 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; "Carl Larsson. L'imagier de la Suède", exhibition catalogue, Petit Palais. Musée de la Ville de Paris, 2014 listed in the catalogue p. 182 and illustrated full page in colour p. 161.
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