"I väntan. Normandie"
Signed IA and dated 04. Watercolour, image 26 x 21,5 cm.
Mrs Gudrun Törneman.
Private Collection, Sweden.
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany, according to label verso.
Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna, Stockholm, "Ivar Arosenius. Minnesutställning", 1926, cat. no. 187.
Färg och Form, Stockholm, "Ivar Arosenius. 1878-1909", May 1944, cat. no. 68.
Arosenius spends the summer of 1904 together with fellow artist Axel Törneman in Normandy. They settle in the small fishing village of Coudeville, where they find accommodation in a rural inn. Arosenius writes about the stay in a letter to his mother: 'It's hot as hell here, so one can't muster the energy to go anywhere. [...] There's a tavern on the ground floor, and in the evenings, the fishermen come and sit down to drink, and we usually sit there sometimes and practice our French.'