Stolen
Artist
Otto G. Carlsund
(Sverige, 1897 - 1948)
Alternate Title
- The Chair
Date1926
DimensionsBildmått: 124 × 58 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineDonation 1954 från Fernand Léger
Object NumberNM 5178
CollectionsGeometri
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkThe Chair is a strict, taut composition; a wooden chair with a back like a ladder rises from a base consisting of two rectangles. The chair is illuminated from the back, which creates an exciting play of light and shade in which one of the rectangles is an illuminated form. As for the style, The Chair is essentially Purist. In 1924 Carlsund came to Léger's school in Paris to study in order to become a monumental painter, after having previously studied in Dresden as GAN's pupil. Very soon he adopted the master's style, as well as learning how to vary it.
He quickly became one of Léger's favourite pupils, who acquired the chair himself. Early on Carlsund took part in many exhibitions both in Paris and the United States. Gradually he developed his style, away from Léger's Cubism and towards Purism, Neoplasticism and finally "Art Concret", which was the topic of the great international exhibition he organized at the Park Restaurant in connection with the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition. This manifestation was a complete fiasco, and Carlsund gave up painting for several years. Nor were any of his many grandiose monumental projects executed on a large scale.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks
Signerad i nedre höger hörn "O.C.26", På baksidan etikett "L´Art Suedois 1913-1953 Mars-april 1953, 16 (i kvadrat) Galerie Denise Réné 124, Rue la Boétie Paris", med blyerts "Henri Marlin, Decorateur, Gamrat Allier
Selected exhibition history
Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Ingens hundar: svensk konst genom hundra år (1998)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Utopia and Reality. Swedish Modernism 1900-1960 (2002)
Bard Graduate Center, New York
Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Scenbyte: verk ur Moderna Museets Samling av Dardel, Matisse, Abdul-Hadi, Hjertén och Léger m.fl. (den 15 oktober 2011 - den 5 februari 2012)
Moderna Museet Malmö
Särskilda verk ur den svenska samlingen (1993-1994)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Utopi & verklighet - svensk modernism 1900-1960 (2000-2001)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues
Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]Utopi & verklighet : svensk modernism 1900- 1960 : konst, arkitektur, fotografi, film, formgivning : [Moderna Museet 7 oktober 2000 - 14 januari 2001]The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]
Bibliography
Wennberg, Bo, Svenska Dagbladet 28/10 1954.
Chambert, Inga, Carlsundstudier, Otto G. Carlsund 1924-1930, Norrköpings Konstmuseum 1982, ill. s 118.
Reuterswärd, Oscar, Otto G. Carlsund , Kalejdoskop förlag, Malmö 1988, ill. (färg) s 41.
Bosson, Viveka, I Légers ateljé, Halmstad 1994, s 113, ill. s 179.
Moderna Museet Stockholm zu Gast in Bonn, 1996.
Bosson, Viveka, m fl, Otto G. Carlsund och konkretistfiaskot i Stockholm 1930, Halmstad 2004, s 53-54, ill. s 53.