Good luck Elsa Thoresen
First monograph about the artist. 204 pages, richly illustrated, text by Thomas Millroth. English and Swedish, Carlsson bokförlag, Stockholm, August 2024.
Elsa Thoresen (1906 - 1994) was an American and one of the artists in Danish surrealism. Chosen by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp for the surrealist group major exhibitions in 1938 and 1947. Married Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen in Copenhagen in 1935. Escaped the Nazis and fled to Sweden in 1944. Divorced Bjerke-Petersen in 1953 and moved back to the US, where a series of abstract paintings remain, rarely exhibited. Over the years her name has been forgotten, but recently more people have opened their eyes to her uniqueness.
Otto G Carlsund - paintings for a movie theater 1926
Otto G Carlsund (1897-1949) - paintings for a movie theater, 158 pages, richly illustrated, text by Anders Wahlgren. English and Swedish, Carlsson bokförlag, Stockholm, January 2025.
For more than fifty years, arthistorian Anders Wahlgren has been fascinated by Otto G Carlsund’s work. The Swede who in 1924 came to Paris to study with Fernand Léger. The story behind Carlsund’s most central work, paintings for a movie theater, has become an enigma. Researchers have had different theories about these fantastic artworks but letters that remained in obscurity for seventy-five years now reveals a new picture. Wahlgren presents his sensational research in a book about the fate of this suite of paintings.