Primavera
1920s
Composed at the beginning of the 1920s, Primavera has been produced every year. When it was woodblock printed in Vienna, it required no less than 35 carved blocks. It comprises a total of nine colours: brown, beige, dark yellow, light yellow, red, pink, dark green, light green and blue. When it was screenprinted in Sweden, it required nine different templates, which traversed the raw weave. In horizontal borders, most of our spring flowers are sprouting: tulips, scillas, hyacinths, daisies, violets and forget-me-nots. The tulips stand out, thanks to their size and their way of growing upwards. The title Primavera recalls pre-Renaissance Florence and Botticelli’s Allegory of Spring, with the goddess of flowers, Flora, scattering flowers over the earth.
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