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Property from an American Private Collection

Carl Larsson

In the Snow

Lot Closed

December 9, 02:03 PM GMT

Estimate

240,000 - 320,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an American Private Collection

Carl Larsson

Swedish

1853 - 1919

In the Snow


signed with initials and dated 1910 lower right

gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper laid on canvas

Unframed: 65 by 100cm., 25½ by 39½in.

Framed: 73 by 108cm., 28¾ by 42½in.

Byron Laflin Smith (Smith, 1853-1914, was a prominent Chicago banker who opened the Northern Trust Company in 1889; acquired from the artist, presumably at the 1913 Chicago exhibition); thence by descent to the present owners
The artist's account book, 'May 1913, America, watercolour, Snow 2244'
Ulwa Neergard, Carl Larsson, Stockholm, 1999, vol. II, no. 1316 (as I snön / Snö, 'circa 1909', 'Probably in USA')