1944 Painting, 'Jug and Blue Chair,' Hans Larsson

1944 Swedish Painting, 'Jug and Blue Chair,' Hans Larsson

Thick, juicy application of paint, fabulous colours from peppermint green to an almost neon cornflower blue. Glorious nougat and fig purple in this, part abstract, part cubist, painting.

Hans Sture Larsson 1910-1973

Hans Sture Larsson was born in Malmö on 25th May 1910. He was a Swedish painter and designer.

Larsson attended Märta of Ekenstam Painting School (Märta af Ekenstams målarskola), Malmö (1923-24), Malmö Technical Academy (Tekniska yrkesskolan) (1927-30) and Skånska Painting School (Skånska målarskolan) (1931). He then worked in Copenhagen 1928-37.

Solo exhibitions include Galerie Moderne, Stockholm (1937), Malmö Museum (1938 and 1941), Stenmans Dotter (Stenmans Daughter) - the gallery of the writer and art dealer Maja Rydman-von Wachenfeldt (nee Stenmann) (1911-1948) - Stockholm (1943), Modern konst i Malmö (Modern Art in Malmö) (1944), Konst-Hallen, Gothenburg (1945) - with Bertil Landelius (1912-1985), Skånska konstmuseum (Skåne Art Museum) in Lund (1945), Galerie Moderne annual 'Modern konst i Hemmiljö' (Modern Art in the Home) exhibition in Stockholm (1948) , Malmö Museum (1949), SDS-Centralen, Malmö (1951) and Lilla konstsalongen, Malmö (1956).

Notable group exhibitions include: Grupp, (Group), Malmö (1935) Twenty Swedish Painters New York (1939), Skånska Målare, (Skåne painter), Gothenburg (1940), Tolv Skåningar (Twelve castings), Galerie Moderne, Stockholm (1941), Nutida Svensk Konst (Contemporary Swedish Art), Copenhagen (1942), Nordisk konst (Nordic Art), Gothenburg (1943), Tio Skånska Konstnäre (Ten Scandinavian artists), Färg och Form, Stockholm (1944), Fem år Svensk Kons (Five Years of Swedish Art) Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm (1945), The Nordic Art Associations Exhibition, Oslo (1946), Skavanks Kunst (Skavanks Art) Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (1946), Det Moderna Museet(Modern Museum) Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm (1950), Skånekonstnärer(Skane Artists) Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm (1951),Skånsk 1904-1954at Skånska konstmuseum, Lund (1954),

The art critic H. Hedemann-Gade wrote in Sydsvenska Dagbladet (22nd March 1954) that Larsson has emerged as one of the Skånes younger (1900s) generations most talented painters and finest colorists.

Examples of Larssons work are held in the collections of National Museum (Nationalmuseum) and Moderna Muséet (Modern Museum) in Stockholm, Malmö Museum, Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen and Landskrona Museum, Sweden

Original frame, ready to hang
Size:
Frame: Width X Height
CM: 54 x 70
Inches:
Painting:
CM: 39 x 56
Inches:
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Provenance: Swedish School, signed and dated top left
Condition: Very good.
Date: 1944

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