Studio: international art (32.1904)

Carl Larsson

"STRANGERS FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT":

ILLUSTRATION TO "SINGOALLA" BY C. LARSSON

carried out. Both the exterior and the interior
of the artistic bungalow which he has had built
in a picturesque part of Sweden are from his
own designs. Architects have duly admired him
for this work, which gives him a prominent place
in their own special branch of art. He has here
amalgamated old Swedish decorative principles
with ideas of his own, with the result that his
home, not only externally, but all through the
house in every nook and corner, to the very
kitchen which gladdens the eye with its bright
yellow and red colour, is an endless variety of
coloured wood-work. Here and there an artistic
whim or the artist's ready wit expresses itself in
decorations and characteristic mottoes. The
furniture, some of which is old, is always in keep-
ing with the decoration of the different rooms,
the studio offering special interest.

In order to characteristically depict this home,
Larsson tried his new style of realistic painting,
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in which the principles of decorative art rule.
Thirty-one water-colour designs were made in
three colours, and this interesting collection was
purchased by a Swedish publisher, Mr. Albert
Bonnier of Stockholm, who has published twenty-
nine of them in an illustrated work. Some of
the more characteristic of these we reproduce
by his permission.

While this work consequently represents the
realistic side of Carl Larsson's art, another series
of drawings, viz.,' his illustrations to " Singoalla," a
Swedish legend of the beginning of the seven-
teenth century, narrated by the Swedish author,
Professor Rydberg, constitute the best expression
of his imaginative faculties. These illustrations
are all made in wash, and are remarkable for
their deep and sympathetic treatment of the
legend and its weird symbols.

These drawings are all like a fantastic play of

"NIGHT": ILLUSTRATION TO " SINGOALLA "

BY C. LARSSON