Albert Edelfelt, Vid fönstret
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ALBERT EDELFELT
Finland 1854-1905
Vid fönstret
Signerad och daterad A. Edelfelt Paris -84. Pastell på papper fäst på duk, 68 x 62 cm.
Signed and dated. Pastel on paper supported on canvas.
PROVENIENS
Inköpt i oktober 1884 av Göteborgs konstförening
därigenom utlottad till grosshandlare Henrik Jensen, Göteborg
därefter i arv inom familjen
därefter inköpt på auktion av en familjemedlem (Stockholms Auktionsverk, våren 2011, katalognr 2664)
UTSTÄLLD
Köpenhamn 1884
Göteborg 1884
LITTERATUR
Bertel Hintze: Albert Edelfelt, Helsingfors 1942, del III, nr 277 i den beskrivande förteckningen, avbildad sidan 63
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Albert Edelfelt - Finland´s first cosmopolitan art icon
Albert Edelfelt should be considered one of the leading figures from the Golden Age of Finnish art towards the end of the nineteenth century. He started his artistic career as a painter of historical events, but was subsequently responsible for launching French popular realism in his home country in the 1880s. Edelfelt enjoys a special position in the world of Finnish painting. Few other Nordic artists achieved such success on the international scene, and his paintings are still sought after and greatly admired by a broad audience today. Edelfelt was regularly commissioned to paint portraits, and his representations of the lives of everyday Finnish people play a fully justified role in Nordic art history. His works are often compared to the paintings of Anders Zorn - and the two actually became close friends.
In the spring of 1884, it was ten years since Albert Edelfelt had first arrived in Paris. He had previously studied in Finland and Belgium, but it was now time to join the inner core of the Parisian art community. In 1877, his work Queen Blanca is unanimously accepted for exhibition at The Salon in Paris and this marks Edelfelt´s artistic breakthrough. During the years that followed, Edelfelt travelled freely in Europe - cosmopolitan as he was - making repeated visits to Finland, Sweden, France, Russia and other countries. In spring 1884, his composition By the Sea was presented at The Salon and purchased by Pontus Fürstenberg, the great patron of the arts from Gothenburg. This was one of the highlights of Edelfelt´s artistic career. His paintings from that year are distinguished by an inner equilibrium and artistic power in which the colouristic intensity becomes even more airy, with a clearer and more evident harmony between the colours.
His pastel work At the window was painted during the early summer of that same year in Paris. The model Thérèse Lainville, a figure who appears in many paintings from that period, is captured in an on-the-spot work in Edelfelt´s studio. Elegantly clothed in the latest fashion, she is ready to head out into the spring day, but is shown here sitting and waiting, looking out over the streets. Her pink hat and pale cheeks capture the first rays of the sun, which actively seek to penetrate the room via the window. With the quick and light touch of the open air artist, Edelfelt depicts his delightful model in an optimistically wonderful and airy composition.
Auktionsnummer:
34
Date:
2018-06-05