Ivar Arosenius
Gothenburg 1878 - 1909 Älvängen
Awaiting (I väntan), 1904
Signed IA and dated 04 lower left
Watercolour and gouache on paper
26.6 x 21.5 cm
10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in
Ivar Arosenius arrived in Paris for the first time in January 1904. He befriended a number of Scandinavian artists who were active in Paris at this time. An artist he knew from Gothenburg, Axel Törneman, had recently arrived from Munich. The two friends both fell in love with the Norwegian singer Gudrun Höyer-Ellefsen. Whilst Törneman won Höyer-Ellefsen’s…