JOHN BAUER. Humpe and -Such a miserable little pale nose! Said the troll!(illustration no 2 and no 8 from: Troll).

John Bauer (1882–1918)

• Estimate 461 EUR
• Stockholms Auktionsverk Fine Art
• Ended 2024-10-17

Two lithographs, 1915. Leaves: 13.4 x 9.6 cm, and 12.8 x 9.5 cm. LITERATURE Schiller, Harald; “John Bauer - Sagotecknaren”, Sveriges Allmänna Konstforening, 1935, p. 146. (“In 1915 he [John Bauer] released an album of fairytale images in black lithography entitled 'Troll'. Carl Larsson wrote the foreword, in which he says, “How difficult it is to avoid a certain dryness, but how soft and caressing has not this lucky boy made these small paintings seem, how deep and warm the black and how radiant the white!'”).