JOHN BAUER. “The Troll-Horse” (from: “Troll”).

“The Magic Horse”

Lithography. Picture: 9 x 9 cm. No 7 in the suite in “Troll” 1915,

Published by Ernst Bauers förlag, Gothenburg. Printed by A. Börtzells Tr. A.B., Stockholm.

LITERATURE:
Schiller, Harald; “John Bauer - Sagotecknaren”, Sveriges Allmänna Konstforening, 1935, p. 146. (“In 1915 he [John Bauer] released an album of fairytale images in black lithography entitled 'Troll'. Carl Larsson wrote the foreword, in which he says, “How difficult it is to avoid a certain dryness, but how soft and caressing has not this lucky boy made these small paintings seem, how deep and warm the black and how radiant the white!'”).