Carl Larsson

Sold by the artist to the art dealer N. Hammarström in Gothenburg for SEK 1,500 in May 1913; the Pontus Fürstenberg collection, Gothenburg; Whole sale dealer H. Fürstenberg; Miss Mona Hahr, Gothenburg; Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 434, ”Bukowski kvällsauktioner”, 28 October 1985, lot 14; private collection (acquired at the above sale).

(Probably. Based on Ulwa Neergaard’s list over exhibitions where the series ”Åt solsidan” was on display) Gothenburg, Sweden, 1909; Internationale Kunstausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, June – end of October 1909; Ed. Schultes Kunstsalon, Berlin, November 1909; Stockholm, May 1910 (based on information from Georg Nordensvan the series "Åt solsidan" was exhibited at that time); Konstföreningens för södra Sverige Carl Larsson-utställning, Malmö, Sweden, 1910; Ausstellung schwed. Künstler im Künstlerbund Hagen, Vienna, September 1910; Esposizione internazionale d'arte, Rome, March - November 1911; Larensche Kunsthandel, Amsterdam, September 1912; The Carl Larsson exhibition in Helsinki and Turku (probably January and February) 1913; The Art Exhibition in Hudiksvall, Sweden, 15 June - 31 July 1913; The Baltic Exhibition, Malmö, Sweden, 15 May - 4 October 1914.

Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, ”Invigningsutställning. Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn”, March – April 1916, no. 75; Swedish Art Exhibition Charlottenberg in Copenhagen, Nov – Dec 1916, no. 450; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, ”Carl Larsson. Minnesutställning”, 6 March – 5 April 1920, no. 231; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, “Carl Larsson. Minnesutställning”, 1953, no. 302; Gothenburg Art Museum, ”Carl Larsson”, April 1971, no. 84.

The composition was one of the full page illustrations in colour in the publication "Åt solsidan", originally published in 1910; Ernst Malmberg, ”Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn. En återblick”, 1919, mentioned p. 34; Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, illustrated in colour p. 413 and catalogued under year 1908, p. 117, no. 1277.