Sixteen of Larsson's watercolors of his home and family are accompanied by text explaining the pictures and something of the life of this great Swedish artist.
Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this is a comprehensive survey of the work of the Swedish artist Carl Larsson and his wife Karin, whose creative interiors, recorded by her husband in a series of watercolours, were the forerunners of the modern Scandinavian style.
Carl Larsson rose to fame with his scenes of everyday domestic life in the country. His watercolours are a homage to happy family life in the home. Larsson's own childhood was one of wretched poverty, but through his art he created an idyllic dream world of happiness and beauty.
A Home was first published in Swedish in 1899 under the title Ett Hem. It was accompanied by a text by Carl Larsson which included his ideas on decoration, and a description of his family's life. However it was a German edition, produced in 1909 and entitled Das Haus in der Sonne (The House in the Sun), which became a bestseller - 40,000 copies sold in three months. This book is a revised version of the first English edition, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York in 1974 with text translated from Lennart Rudstrom's 1968 adaptation of Larsson's original words.
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