Nils Dardal
01.12.39 – 31.12.39
Nils von Dardel (1888-1943) was a Swedish painter. He was a student at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1908-1910, and then studied in Paris, where he lived most of the time until 1939. He made a number of extended trips, including to Japan in 1917. From 1940 he lived in New York, but also visited Latin America.
His art is based on the color expressionism of Cézanne and the Matisse school and the radical experiments in form of the Cubists, but gradually takes a strong influence from exotic (East Asian, Persian, Mexican) art, while at the same time it is colored by the naivism of Henri Rousseau and Swedish valley painting.
About the exhibition
Preface written by Henrik Sørensen
"Don't think that Nils Dardel is worldly - because if he paints "nicely", don't think he is as compassionate as the beautiful eyes he creates.
He is all this.
In addition, he is a black innocence - a white cynic - a tender defiance.
Much of the difficult and unhappy torment of our time he has collected in a trembling - heart-shaped mirror - held out to you by a rose-colored hand - but firm - - very firm."
The exhibition showed up to 200 works - paintings, watercolors and drawings by the Swedish artist Nils Dardel from 1909 to 1939. Dardel is known, among other things, for Débit de Tabac, Senlis (1913) The Dying Dandy (1918), which was also shown at this exhibition, now at Moderna museet, Stockholm, and Model in Green Chair (1928), which is held by the National Museum.
