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Gosse som planterar (Hoppet)
Gosse som planterar (Hoppet)
Gosse som planterar (Hoppet)

Gosse som planterar (Hoppet)

by Karl Isakson
Artist (Sverige, 1878 - 1922)
Alternate Title
  • Boy Planting (Hope)
Date1909
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsBildmått: 68,5 × 55,8 cm Yttermått: 81,8 × 69 × 5 cm
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Credit LineInköp 1929
Object NumberNM 2714
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkThe blue sky and the plant that the boy gazes at with serious eyes brings spring light and resurrection to mind. The boy is naked, as if to emphasize the link between child and nature. This is not a portrait in the usual sense, but a metaphor for budding life. Karl Isakson spent most of his adult life in Copenhagen. He explored a small number of motifs throughout his career: portraits, landscapes, nudes, still-lifes and mythological and Norse scenes, all displaying his passionate exploration of colour. His oeuvre was seminal to the Gothenburg colourists in Sweden, and to the Bornholm school of painters in Denmark. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Påskrift på baksidan "Malet av K. isakson attesteres Viggo Madsen Aage" Selected exhibition history Ingens hundar: svensk konst genom hundra år (1998) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Mannen med det blå ansiktet (den 15 maj 2021 - den 30 januari 2022) Moderna Museet Malmö Karl Isakson. Målaren 1878-1922 (2004) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Karl Isakson: Målaren 1878-1922 Bibliography Danneskjold-Samsoe, S., Karl Isakson¸ Köpenhamn 1933, ill. s 27. Engwall, Gustaf, Karl Isakson, Stockholm 1936, ill., ("Gosse planterande 'Hoppet'"). Engwall, Gustaf, Karl Isakson, SAK's publ. LVII, Stockholm 1944, ill.(färg) s 72, ("Gosse som planterar (Hoppet)", daterad 1905-09). Ivan Aguéli, Karl Isakson, Helsingfors: Konstsamlingarna i Ateneum1948, ill. Wennberg, Bo, Svenskt måleri i Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1960, ill. s 78, ("Gosse som planterar en blomma"). Karl Isakson 1878-1922 Retrospektiv utställning, Göteborg: Konstallen 1962, ill. nr 3. Karl Isakson 1878-1922, Oslo: Kunstnernes hus 1962, ill. Hvas, Brita, Karl Isakson ett liv i konst, Kristianstad 1989, ill. s 85.