GOTTFRID KALLSTENIUS. Sunset.

Oil on canvas, 80.5 x 124 cm. Signed and dated Kallstenius 29.

The view is taken from Tättö towards Vivassen.

PROVENANCE Adolf Anderbergs Art Shop, Malmö Adolf Anderberg (1885-1868) was a doctor of philosophy at Lund University and program manager at Radiotjänst in Malmö from 1925. He was also an art dealer. He published several art history works, including the standard work Carl Fredrik Hill (1928).

EXHIBITIONS USA, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 22nd International Exhibition of Paintings, April 26-June 17, 1923 Västervik, Kulturhuset, Gottfrid Kallstenius 1861-1943. Memorial exhibition, 14 November-19 December 1993, No. 37 “Sunset. 1922".

LITERATURE The artist's list of works during 1922, "Evening by the beach (Tättö) 80 x 120".

The exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1922 was very extensive. In addition to Kallstenius, several well-known Swedish artists were represented, including Ander Zorn, Bruno Liljefors. J. A. G. Acke.

In connection with the exhibition, on October 30, 1923, Clément Morro wrote a long article about Kallstenius in La Revue Moderne, no. 20, pp. 19-21 which was illustrated by several of his works. About the painting in question he wrote: "Professor Gottfried Kallstenius, of the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, rightly regarded as one of the best contemporary painters, participated in the recent exhibition in Pittsburgh with a very beautifully executed landscape, which reveals his remarkable qualities as a colorist at the same time as his talent as both a deep and sensitive Nordic poet. Gottfried Kallstenius is a writer who, in addition to technical writings on painting methods, has published poems. His painting in itself is enough to reveal a man of letters, as such expressive works, even when it concerns simple landscapes, but even more so in the important symbolic compositions in which he made himself a master, show a deep general education which to and with precedes the pictorial technique./ His successes have been many. The most significant awards he received are two gold medals in Munich, one in Rome, as well as in San Francisco, Saint Louis, Buenos-Aires. A large number of his canvases feature prominently in museums in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Brighton, Lübeck, Munich, Helsinki, Budapest, as well as in America. From this world-renowned artist, we wish to receive some works in our country in the near future, where they would without a doubt receive the best reception." 22nd Annual International Exhibition of Paintings — Carnegie Museum of Art.