Goshawk with Partridge

Goshawk with Partridge

1892

Oil on canvas

Mått 51,50 x 73,00 cm Ram 64,50 x 85,50 x 7,00 cm

GKM 2013-60

Bequest of Gustaf Werner (1859–1948) to the City of Gothenburg. Transferred to the Gothenburg Museum of Art in 2013.

In the 1890s Liljefors painted a series of monochromes, so-called grisailles, which he often reproduced in newspapers and magazines. Whether this painting, Goshawk with Partridge, was meant to be reproduced is not known. The painting’s format rather suggests that it was an artistic experiment in a grey scale. In 1894 Liljefors writes to Pontus Fürstenberg that there are certain motifs that should preferably be rendered in monochrome.

Göteborg, Göteborgs konstmuseum, 07/09/2013 - 17/11/2013

Smuk og farlig. Naturen set af Liljefors, red., Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivaagaard, 2023., ill. p. 32-33