Editing Carl Larsson (section)

=== ''Midvinterblot'' ===
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[[File:Nationalmuseum trappa 2008b.jpg|thumb|''Midvinterblot'' <br />Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (1915)]]
In his memoirs ''Jag'' (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers förlag, 1931) – published after Larsson's death – he declared his bitterness and disappointment over this rejection of the painting he himself considered to be his greatest achievement: "The fate of ''Midvinterblot'' broke me! This I admit with a dark anger. And still, it was probably the best thing that could have happened, because my intuition tells me – once again! – that this painting, with all its weaknesses, will one day, when I'm gone, be honoured with a far better placement." Larsson admitted, however, in the same memoirs <!-- (chapter "Artist of the Home") --> that the pictures of his family and home "became the most immediate and lasting part of my life's work. For these pictures are of course a very genuine expression of my personality, of my deepest feelings, of all my limitless love for my wife and children."{{quote without source|date=August 2023}}

Fights between different schools of Swedish artists caused the "Midvinterblot" controversy to continue for many years. In 1987 the museum was even offered the monumental painting for free, provided it would adorn the empty wall for which it had been intended, but the museum declined the offer, so the painting was sold to the Japanese collector [[Hiroshi Ishizuka]]. In 1992, he agreed to lend it to the museum for its major Carl Larsson exhibition, where it was hung in the intended place. Public appreciation changed the experts' view of the painting, and with the help of private donations the museum was able to buy it from Ishizuka in 1997 and permanently display it in the location for which it was intended.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eclecticlight.co/2015/11/22/carl-larsson-how-a-loved-and-popular-painter-became-lost-in-controversy/ |title=Carl Larsson: how a loved and popular painter became lost in controversy |publisher=eclecticlight.co |date=22 November 2015 |access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref>