Ängsblommor
Artist
Eric Hallström
(Sverige, 1893 - 1946)
Alternate Title
- Meadow Flowers
Date1918
DimensionsBildmått: 54 × 65 cm
Ram: 64,5 × 66,5 × 6,8 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 1987
Object NumberMOM 402
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkA murky, brown interior, a window overlooking the water where a boat floats by. The picture is flat. The perspective of the white, round table in the foreground is incongruous with the rest of the room. It evades us. It opens itself to the viewer's inner eye. Eric Hallström is not bothered about depicting the world correctly but approaches his subject with tenderness, as if opening a box of fairytales. He guides our gaze to the bouquet on the table. Here we find colour, and an enchanting view that is not outside the window but in the vase. It is a dream image, painted in the country, with thoughts of both oceans and summer blossoms.
Selected exhibition history
Poesi i sak. Från Josephson till X:et - ur samlingarna (1992-1993)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Särskilda verk ur den svenska samlingen (1993-1994)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
10 historier - svensk konst 1910-1945 ur Moderna Museets samling (2007)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues
Poesi i sak : från Josephson till X:et : måleri , teckning och skulptur : Ernst Josephson, Hilding Linnqvist, Axel Nilsson, Eric Hallström, Gideon Börje, Bror Hjorth, Sven Erixson : [Moderna Museet : 21 juni 1992 -31 januari 199310 historier : svensk konst 1910-1945 ur Moderna Museets samling : [2/6 - 9/9 2007]
Bibliography
Hoppe, Ragnar & Seth, Lennart, Eric Hallström, AB Svensk Litteratur, Stockholm 1936, ill. s 18.
Stockholm: Konstakademien 1965, ill. s 19.
Seth, Lennart, Eric Hallström, SAK's publ. LXXVI, Stockholm 1967, ill.(färg) mellan s 64 och 65.
Seth, Lennart, Eric Hallström, Liv och konstnärskap, Stockholm: Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde 1988, ill.(färg) nr 10.