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Erik Larsen, watercolour on paper, listed Danish painter.
Colourful, stylised composition depicting a singing woman in a blue dress playing a stringed instrument. Stars surround the figure against a warm coral-red sky and a simplified landscape. Bold outlines and distinct areas of colour give the scene a fanciful, theatrical character. Signed lower right. Presented with a mount in a wooden frame with a gilt-coloured inner border.
Origin: Denmark.
Material: Watercolour on paper.
Dimensions: Visual size 42 × 30 cm, total size 69 × 51 cm.
Period: Circa 1940s.
Condition: Appears in good condition, with minor signs of age and wear to the framing.
Bio:
Erik Larsen (1902–1975) was a Danish painter, draughtsman and illustrator. He studied under Karl Larsen in 1932–33 and travelled to Paris and Munich. His subjects included theatre life, entertainers, café scenes and imaginative figurative compositions, often with a humorous, narrative character. He exhibited at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling and illustrated works by Heinrich von Kleist and Johan Herman Wessel.
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