Bruno Liljefors Wild Sweden

October 1, 2024 February 16, 2025 Exhibition has ended

After two exhibitions devoted to Swedish painters Carl Larsson (2014) and Anders Zorn (2017), the Petit Palais pays tribute to Bruno Liljefors with the last chapter of its programme focusing on the illustrious Swedish trio known as "ABC ", a combination of the initials of their first names.

Less known than his peers, Bruno Liljefors was nevertheless an important figure on the Scandinavian arts scene in the late-nineteenth century. By showing his work for the first time to the French public ...
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Bruno Liljefors. Wild Sweden - Exhibition catalog

MX030131

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WRITTEN IN FRENCH

At the end of the nineteenth century, the Swedish painter Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939) set himself the goal of revealing the beauty of Swedish nature. He represents with virtuosity and poetry the vital energy that animates this wild world. Abandoning the picturesque, he endeavours to represent, in an explosion of details and colours, the animals in their daily lives: the eagle owl in the heart of the deep forest, the flights of wild geese in the twilight, but also the immensity of the waters that border the Stockholm archipelago. The plumage becomes the motifs of goldsmith's work, the silent lakes announce the blue dawn... Through the wilderness, it is the soul of Sweden that the artist reveals in his work.

Exhibition at the Petit Palais from 1st October 2024 to 16 February 2025

French
160 pages / 120 illustrations

Editions Paris Musées

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