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Ragnar Sandberg, Rosa segel/Pink sails, 1934 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Pink Sails (Rosa segel)

Swedish Modernism in the Moderna Museet collection

Stockholm, 17.6 2023 – 1.1 2025

The exhibition Pink Sails highlights some of the imagery and styles that existed side by side in an era of major social change. Sweden was rapidly transforming from an agrarian society to an industrial nation – social reform and optimism about the future mixed with military armament and fears of an imminent world war. Pink Sails features selected works from the four first decades of the 20th century and the multifaceted field of art that is now known as Swedish modernism.

“Pink Sails – Swedish Modernism in the Moderna Museet Collection” is the second instalment in the Museum’s new themed presentations of its collection. The curator Matilda Olof-Ors borrowed the title from Ragnar Sandberg’s twilight scene Pink Sails from 1934.In the exhibition, visitors will meet some 100 works by Anna Casparsson, Siri Derkert, Sven X-et Erixson, Isaac Grünewald, Sigrid Hjertén, Bror Hjorth, Hilding Linnqvist, Vera Nilsson, Ragnar Sandberg, Otte Sköld and many other artists.

Press release Pink Sails

Sven X-et Erixson, Målarens hus/The Painter's House, 1942 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Sigrid Hjertén, Ateljéinteriör/Studio Interior, 1916 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Nils Dardel, Den döende dandyn/The Dying Dandy, 1918 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Ragnar Sandberg, Rosa segel/Pink sails, 1934 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Ragnar Sandberg, Gungande barn/ Children Swinging, 1940 Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet
Ragnar Sandberg, Morgonbad/The Morning Dip, 1934 /1935 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Hilding Linnqvist, Sjukhussal II/Hospital Ward II, 1920 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Hilding Linnqvist , Hjärtats sång/Song of the Heart , 1920 Photo: Moderna Museet
Nell Walden, Komposition/Composition, 1917 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Nell Walden, Passion, 1918 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Ragnar Sandberg, På skärgårdsbåten/On the Coasting-vessel, 1942 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Otto G. Carlsund, Komposition för musikrum, 1928 Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet
Ivan Lönnberg, Självporträtt/Self-portrait, 1914 Photo: Juan Luis Sánchez
Isaac Grünewald, Lyftkranen/The Crane, 1915 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Sigrid Hjertén, Utsikt över Slussen/View of Slussen, 1919 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Vera Nilsson, Såpbubblor/Soap Bubbles, 1927 Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet
Anna Casparsson, Stories. Little Claus and Big Claus, The story of Little Rosa, The Little Mermaid., 1947 Appliqué, paint and embroidery. Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Nils Dardel, Crime passionnel/Crime of Passion, 1921 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Ivan Lönnberg, Porträtt av Nils Santesson/Portrait of Nils Santesson, 1914 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Mollie Faustman, Flicka med blomma, u.å./n.d. Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Sigrid Hjertén, Den röda rullgardinen/The Red Blind, 1916 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Anna Riwkin, Dancer Alexander von Swaine, 1936 Gelatin silver print
Repro: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Anna Riwkin, Author Karin Boye, 1939 Gelatin silver print
Repro: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Anna Riwkin, Author Harry Martinson, 1932 Gelatin silver print
Repro: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, Cowboy och hästar/Cowboy and Horses, 1918 Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet
Sven X-et Erixson, Tidsbild/Picture of the Times, 1937 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Sven X-et Erixson, Fornforskare och flottare/Archaeologists and Log Drivers, 1944 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Edith Fischerström, Götaverken, Göteborg, 1939 Woodcut. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet
Bror Hjorth, Liggande lejon, u.å./n.d. Graphite on paper. Foto: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
Sven X-et Erixson, Skulptören (Porträtt av Bror Hjorth)/The Sculptor (Portrait of Bror Hjorth), 1933 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Lars Pirak, Untitled , sent 1980-tal/late 1980's Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet
Carola Grahn, Horizon of Me(aning), 2021 Installation, birchwood.
Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet
Carl Gustaf Rosenberg, Gällivare – Narvik nära riksgränsen/Gällivare – Narvik near the national border, 1935 Gelatin silver print
Photographer: Carl Gustaf Rosenberg
Carl Gustaf Rosenberg, Butikshus i Kallhäll, ca 1935 Gelatin silver print
Photographer: Carl Gustaf Rosenberg
Image of a wooden scuplture group depicting black dressed persons standing around a coffin
Axel Petersson, Begravningen/The Funeral, 1909 Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Installation view of Rosa segel. Two podiums with small sculptures are in focus in the image.
Installation view. In center from the left: Gammal flicka (1944-1945) and Mormor och Puck (ca 1945). Siri Derkert. Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Close up of stapled wood in a wooden frame
Carola Grahn, Horizon of Me(aning), 2021 Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Image of a room with white walls with hung paintings. A podium in the middle with two sculptures.
Installation view. In center from the left: The Speaker (ca 1920) and The Scene (ca 1925). Gösta-Adrian Nilsson (GAN). Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Image of sculpture depicting two persons in alabaster
Bror Hjorth, Kärleksgrupp/Love Group, 1932 Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Image of a wooden scuplture group depicting black dressed persons standing around a coffin
Axel Petersson, Begravningen/The Funeral, 1909 Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Installation view over white walls with the two artworks Jean Börlin i Siamesisk Dans (1919) and Den döende dandyn (1918) in wooden frames
Jean Börlin i Siamesisk Dans (1919) and Den döende dandyn (1918). Nils Dardel. Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Installation of view Pink Sails. Photo of a white hall with wooden floors, on the walls hangs artworks and two sculptures are placed to the left in the image.
Installation view Pink Sails, 2023 Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Photograph of the sculpture "Flickhuvud", executed in oak
Ninnan Santesson, Flickhuvud/Girl's Head, 1930 Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet
Installation of view Pink Sails. Photo of a white hall with wooden floors, on the walls hangs artworks and two sculptures are placed to the left in the image.
Installation view Pink Sails, 2023 Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet