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Carl Kylberg

(Sweden, 1878-1952)
Estimate
700 000 - 800 000 SEK
66 400 - 75 900 EUR
76 000 - 86 900 USD
Hammer price
650 000 SEK
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Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

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Karin Aringer
Stockholm
Karin Aringer
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Carl Kylberg
(Sweden, 1878-1952)

"Vägen i Skogen" (The Road in the Forest)

Signed CK on verso. Executed in 1940. Canvas 79 x 110 cm.

Exhibitions

Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Kylberg", 20 April - 12 May, 1946, cat no 19.
Kunstforeningen, Köpenhamn, 1956, cat no 54.
Fyns Stifts Kunstforening, Odense, January-February, 1957.
Konstakademien, SAK, "Carl Kylberg", minnesutställning 2-25 November 1962, cat no 103.
Moderna Museet, "Utställning 140", 1976, cat no 45.
Malmö Konsthall, "Carl Kylberg- Oljemålningar, akvareller och tekningar", Jubileumsutställning 17 December 1977- 26 February 1978, cat no 87.

Literature

Brita Knyphausen, "Carl Kylberg", 1965, enlisted nr 245.
Exhibition catalogue, Malmö Konsthall, 1978, reproduced page 61.

More information

Original frame by the artists wife, Ruth.

Designer

Carl Kylberg, 1878-1952, is considered a seminal figure in the Swedish 1900-century art. He was a student at the architecture department at Berlin University and then a student of Carl Wilhelmson at Valand art school in Gothenburg.

Kylberg broke through late, made his debut as a painter in 1919 with the February group at Liljevalchs. He became known to a wider public by the age of 50, but continued to be controversial as an artist. He had a permanent artistic antagonist of Isaac Grünewald and the same year as the Nazis in Germany set up the decisive blow against Entartete Kunst and practically the whole of modernism, Swedish government stopped the purchase of the painting "Uppbrottet" of the National Museum in Stockholm.

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