Hawk's Nest

Hawk's Nest

1886

Oil on canvas

Mått 92,50 x 123,00 cm Ram 133,00 x 163,00 x 14,00 cm

F 88

Bequest of Pontus and Göthilda Fürstenberg, 1902

From the book “The Collection: The Gothenburg Museum of Art”, Gothenburg 2014: A goshawk has just returned to the nest with its prey, a hare, where its chicks immediately begin fighting over it. Even in the nest, life is a constant battle, where the one who seizes most food from its siblings will become the strongest and have the best chances of survival. Liljefors here has worked with contrasts on many different levels: between the dead hare and living hawks; between the chick’s soft feathers and sharp claws; between the total focus within the nest and blurred forest beyond. Per Dahlström

Bo Lindwall, "Nordiskt friluftsmåleri", Bildkonsten i Norden, del 3, Bokförlaget Prisma, Stockholm (1950) 1972., p. 110, ill. p. 110 Bruno Liljefors. 60 reproduktioner i tontryck efter fotogrfier af originalen, Gleerupska Universitets-bokhandeln, Lund 1910, ill. p. 8 Sixten Strömbom, Konstnärsförbundets historia till och med 1890, Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1945, p. 260, ill. p. bild 110 Axel L. Romdahl, Göteborgs konstmuseum. Tvåhundra bilder med inledande text av Axel L. Romdahl, Medéns bokhandels aktiebolag, Göteborg 1925., ill. p. 143 Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Björn Fredlund, Anna Hyltze, Philippa Nanfeldt, Isabella Nilsson, Johan Sjöström, Samlingen Göteborgs konstmuseum, red. Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Anna Hyltze, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg 2014., p. 211, ill. p. 212-213 Annick Lemoine et al., Bruno Liljefors. La suède suvage, red. Sandra Buratti-Hasan och Carl-Johan Olsson, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville Paris, Paris, 2024., ill. p. 23