JOHN BAUER. Two suitors (illustration no 5 from Troll), lithography, 1915, 9.9 x 9.1 cm.

John Bauer (1882–1918)

JOHN BAUER 1882-1918 "Two suitors" (illustration no 5 from "Troll"). Lithograph, 1915. Image: 9.9 x 9.1 cm. LITERATURE: Schiller, Harald; "John Bauer - The Storyteller", Sweden's Allmänna Art Association, 1935, page 146. ("In 1915 he [John Bauer] published an album of fairy-tale pictures in black lithography entitled 'Troll.' Carl Larsson wrote the foreword, where he, among other things, says: 'How difficult it is to avoid a certain dryness, but how soft and caressing this lucky boy has made these little paintings seem, how deep and warm the black and how radiant the white!'").