August Strindberg

The painter Carlsson, Stockholm and Hudiksvall (by 1901) [Carlsson, to whom Göran Söderström attributes the scene of the capercaillies on the reverse of the present work but about whom little is known, was presumably a friend of Strindberg's];

Ida Wiström, Hudiksvall (by 1949);

Thence by descent to Evert Wiström, Njutånger;

Sale, Stockholm, Bukowski's, 31 October 1989, lot 49;

Where acquired by Åmells Konsthandel, Stockholm;

From whom acquired by a Private collection, Sweden;

Sale ("Property of a Private Collector"), London, Sotheby's, 16 June 1993, lot 107;

Where acquired by the present collector.

Örebro, Örebro Centralbibliotek, Lund, Lunds universitets Konstmuseum, Strindberg som malare och modell, 1949, no. 50;

Clam, Austria, Burgmuseum, Strindberg-Ausstellung, 1978;

Venice, Biennale di Venezia, 1980;

Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Stadthaus; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Berlin, Akademie der bildenden Künste; Vienna, Akademie der Bildenden Künste; Linz, Stadtmuseum, Der andere Strindberg, 1981-1982, cat. no. 10;

Malmö, Konsthall, August Strindberg, "Underlandet," 26 December 1989-14 February 1990, pp. 152-153, reproduced;

Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Strindberg, Kylberg, Book, 10 April-31 May 1992, no. 19;

London, Tate Modern, August Strindberg: Painter, photographer, writer, 17 February-15 May 2005, no. 30, p. 47, reproduced.

G. Söderström, Strindbergs Måleri, Malmö 1972, p. 348, cat. no 86, reproduced.