LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (height) by 27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Aug Sg/1903' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Stockholm, Intima Teatern, Strindbergsutställningen till firandet av Strindberg 60-årsdag, 1909. Stockholm, Hallins Konsthall, Strindbergs-utställning, 10 June - 31 August 1911, no. 12. Stockholm, Gummesons Konsthandel, August Strindbergs Målningar, 1924, no. 31. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Örebro Centralbibliotek, Rådhuset and Lund, Skånska Konstmuseum, Strindberg som målare och modell, January- April 1949, no. 47 (titled Infernotavlan). Paris, Musée national d’Art Moderne, Les Sources du XXe Siècle, Les Arts en Europe 1884-1914, November 1960–January 1961, no. 693. Ulm, Kunstverein Ulm im Schwörhaus, August Strindberg Malerei, March-April 1962, no. 19. Paris, Musée national d’Art Moderne, August Strindberg Peintures, May-June 1962, no. 21 Bruges, Provincial Hof, August Strindberg Peintures, July-September 1962, no. 19. London, British Museum, August Strindberg 1849-1912, October 1962, no. 21 Marburg, Universitätsmuseum, August Strindberg, November 1962, no. 21. Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Art, August Strindbergs Malerier, December 1962-January 1963, no. 22. Oslo Kunstforening, August Strindbergs Maleri, January-February 1963, no. 22. Göteborgs Konstmuseum, August Strindberg, February-March 1963, no. 21. Stockholm, Moderna Museet, August Strindberg Målningar, March-April 1963, no. 26 (titled Inferno-tavlan). Stockholm, Konstakademien, Moderna Museet på Konstakademien, 1970. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Goethe, Hugo, Strindberg, diktare, bildkonstnärer, October–December 1974, p. 43, no. 192 (illustrated in color between pp. 24-25; titled Inferno-tavlan). Oslo, Munch-Museet, Strindberg maler, December 1976–February 1977. Clam, Austria, Burgmuseum, 1978. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, Ala Napoleonica, San Marco, Strindberg, 1980, no. 15 (illustrated, p. 259). Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lehnbachhaus and (West) Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Der andere Strindberg, 25 January- May 1981, no. 29. Stockholm, Kulturhuset, Strindberg, May-October 1981, pp. 132-133 (illustrated). London, Hayward Gallery, Dreams of a Summer Night, Scandinavian Painting at the Turn of the Century, July–October 1986, no. 94 (illustrated in color; titled Inferno-Painting and with incorrect cataloguing). Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Im Lichte des Nordens, Skandinavische Maleri um Jahrhundertwende, October 1986–February 1987, no. 94 (illustrated in color; titled Inferno-Bild and with incorrect cataloguing). Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, Lumieres du Nord, La peinture scandinave 1885-1905, February–May 1987, no. 119 (illustrated in color; titled Inferno-tableau and with incorrect cataloguing). Oslo, Nasjonalgalleriet, Nordiske stemninger, Nordisk maleri fra århundreskiftet, June–August 1987, no. 116 (illustrated in color; titled Inferno-tavlan). Malmö Konsthall, August Strindberg, Underlandet, December 1989–February 1990, pp. 18 and 146-147 (illustrated in color). Stockholm, Nationalmuseum; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst and Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Strindberg, Painter and Photographer, February 2001-January 2002, pp. 72-73, 78 and 186, no. 32 (illustrated in color, pl. 54). London, Tate Modern, August Strindberg, Painter, photographer, writer, February–May 2005, pp. 27, 92-93, 150 and 154, no. 65 (illustrated in color). Stockholm, Bukowski Auktioner, Strindberg at Bukowskis, May 2012. Stockholm, Moderna Museet (on extended loan 1960s-early 1970s).

Literature:

G. Sylvan, "August Strindberg som målare" in Dikt och Konst, Tidskrift för Konstvetenskap, Stockholm, 1948, pp. 63-125 (illustrated, p. 109, fig. 45; titled Inferno-tavlan). G. Söderström, Strindbergs måleri en monografi redigerad av torsten måtte schmidt, Malmö, 1972, pp. 17, 186, 202, 211, 220 and 240, no. 81 (illustrated in color, färgplansch pl. XI; titled Inferno-tavlan). G. Söderström, Strindberg och bildkonsten, Stockholm, 1972, pp. 340-341. G. Söderström, "Strindberg dipinge/Strindberg as a painter" in Immagini dal pianeta Strindberg, La Biennale, Venice, 1981, p. 107 (illustrated). G. Söderström et al., Der andere Strindberg, Materialien zu Malerei, Photographie und Theaterpraxis, Frankfurt, 1981, pp. 190, 245 (illustrated, pl. 69). Christie's Review of the Season, 1989, p. 56 (illustrated in color). H. Johansson, "Målaren Strindberg" in Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, 27 January 1990. D. Feuk, Strindberg, Inferno Painting, Pictures of Paradise, Copenhagen, 1991, pp. 66-68 (illustrated in color). D. Feuk, "Omfale/Omfalos. Kring några målningar av Strindberg från hösten 1901" in Strindbergiana, no. 7, Stockholm, 1992, pp. 103-113. G. Hellström and C.G. Petersen, Konstspelet - hur 80-talets gyllene konstmarknad förvandlades till trauma på 90-talet, Gendis, 1992, pp. 155-156 and 181. C.C. Fraser, Ensam och Allén. Ord och bild hos Strindberg, Stockholm, 1994. R. Rosenblum, The Paintings of August Strindberg, The Structure of Chaos, Copenhagen, 1995, pp. 10, 13 and 32 (illustrated in color, fig. 7). G. Petri, Der Bildprozess bei August Strindberg, Cologne, 1999, pp. 127-128 (illustrated, fig. 50). C. Meyer et al., Strindberg, Schönberg, Munch, Nordische Moderne in Schönbergs Wien um 1900, exh. cat., Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, 2008, pp. 57 and 223. S. Prideaux, Strindberg, A Life, New Haven, 2012, p. 347 (illustrated in color, pl. 115).

Provenance:

Richard Bergh, Stockholm and Storängen (acquired from the artist by 1909). Gummesson Konsthandel, Stockholm (by 1924). Helge Dahlstedt and Eva Mörner-Dahlstedt, Vilhelmina, Sweden (acquired from the above). Fyr Helge Dahlstedt, Lidingö (by descent from the above by 1974). Anon. sale, Christie’s, London, 16 March 1989, lot 382 (illustrated on the cover). Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 17 June 1992, lot 323. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.