"Vet du vad? Var god och glad!" / "Esbjörn led" / "Grolle nicht" (Esbjörn sulking)
Signed C.L within a circle and dated 1911. Watercolour 69 x 103 cm.
Originally in the collections of Consul General Axel Lagrelius (acquired directly from the artist in 1913); private collection; Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, Sale 580, "Vårens Klassiska", 2-5 June 2014, lot 564; private collection.
Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin, April 1912 (under the title "Grolle nicht!"); Helsinki and Turku, 1913, no. 31; Baltiska utställningen, Malmö, Sweden, 15 May - 4 October 1914, no. 80 (under the title "Var god och glad"); Liljevalchs konsthall (Liljevalchs Public Art Gallery), Stockholm, "Invigningsutställning. Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn", March-April 1916, no. 86 (under the title "Esbjörn led").
Ernst Malmberg, "Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn. En återblick", 1919, mentioned pp. 35-36 and illustrated full page; Ulwa Neergaard, "Carl Larsson. Signerat med pensel och penna", 1999, listed in the catalogue under year 1911, p. 136, no. 1436.
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