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On the Sunny Side
 

Carl Larsson, Crayfishing, watercolor, 32 x 43 cm, ca. 1895, Swedish National Museum, Stockholm

Exhibition Swedish Turn-of-the-Century Art: A Summertime Treat, until 17 August 2007
National Museum, Södra Blasieholmshamnen, Stockholm, +46 8-5195 4300
www.nationalmuseum.se

The Swedish National Museum of Arts is rearranging its XIXth-century section to accomodate the taste of the public for turn-of-the-century painting. Hannah Pauli, Anders Zorn, Carl Fredrik Hill, Gustaf Cederström, and many contemporaries will therefore enjoy the spotlight. Among them Carl Larsson stands tall. He has often been introduced as a champion of the affluent middle-class family and its untainted happiness. His biographer, however, described him as "a volcano at boiling point (...) a restless mind (...) desperate sometimes to the point of flinging his palette against the walls, other times enthusiastic, with a wide smile on his face and an air of mischief (...) or, moody and solitary, convinced that inner peace can only be achieved through utter submission to fate." (Georg Nordensvan, quoted by Bo Lindwal in Carl Larsson, Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image). Above, one from the 26 watercolors in his series "A Home".