Ivar Arosenius
Gothenburg 1878 - 1909 Älvängen
A Princess (Princessan), 1904
Signed and dated .IA./04. lower right
Watercolour and gouache on paper laid on board
32 x 23 cm
12 5/8 x 9 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…