ARTIST: Karl Larsen (Danish, 1897 - 1977)
NAME: Nude
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Few very minor paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
FRAME SIZE: 27 x 23 inches / 68 x 58 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Born in 1897, Karl Larsen was predominantly inspired by the 1900s and 1910s growing up. The first decades of the twentieth century were characterised by vibrant developments in pictorial art. It was the era of post-Impressionism and of experimentation, including the first ventures into Expressionism and Abstraction. Many different groups of artists or loosely affiliated communities of the avant-garde in different major cities around the world developed many modes of these significant innovations. The horrors of the First World War produced important developments in the psychological intentions of art, including the absurdist stylings of Dadaism which appeared in Paris, Berlin, Zurich and Hannover, and which brought recognition for artists like Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Kurt Schwitters. Many of these ideas would go on to flourish further in Surrealism - the first art movement to fully incorporate psychology, and in particular ideas about the unconscious which had been established by Sigmund Freud and his follower Carl Jung.