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Greta Gerell

(Sweden, 1898-1982)
Estimate
6 000 - 8 000 SEK
533 - 711 EUR
550 - 734 USD
Hammer price
6 500 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Finland: Kuvasto

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Karin Aringer
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Karin Aringer
Specialist Photographs and Contemporary Art
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Greta Gerell
(Sweden, 1898-1982)

"Från Café Flore. Paris" (From Café Flore. Paris)

Signed Gerell and dated Paris -55. Panel 21.5 x 16 cm.

Exhibitions

R B Konsthandel, Stockholm, "Kvinnliga konstnärer", October 1987.

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Greta Gerells mor uppmuntrade tidigt dotterns konstnärliga anlag och redan som 17-åring blev Greta antagen som en av de yngsta eleverna någonsin på Konsthögskolan i Stockholm. På 1920-talet studerade hon hos André Lhote i Paris, fick stipendium till Florens i Italien och tillbringade också en tid i München för konststudier. Gerells första separatutställning blev i Gummessons konsthandel i Stockholm 1927. Utställningen blev en stor framgång, rosades av kritikerna och många betydande konstsamlare förvärvade ett konstverk.

Gerells tidigaste konstverk karaktäriseras av realistiskt skildrade landskap och djurmotiv påverkade av impressionismen. Under 1920-talet förändrades henns måleri som blev nysakligt med en stillsam utstrålning med drag åt det puristiska. Interiörer, porträtt och stillebenmåleri blir hennes motivkrets som framställs med noggrannhet och emellanåt fascinerande skicklighet. Greta Gerell levde sedan ungdomsåren i enlighet med den antoposofiska läran, vilket enligt henne själv inte direkt påverkade hennes måleri, men följde henne livet ut. 1967 grundades Greta Gerells stiftelse som stödjer antroposofisk verksamhet i Sverige.

Konstkritiken Karl Asplund beskrev hennes måleri med orden "en kunnig realism, bäsjälad av en stilla, varm känsla för motivet".

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Greta Gerell's mother encouraged her artistic talent early on, and at just 17, she was accepted as one of the youngest students ever at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. During the 1920s, Gerell studied with André Lhote in Paris, got scholarship to travel to Florance, and lived and studied in Munich. Gerell's first exhibition was held in Gummesson's art trade in Stockholm in 1927. The exhibition became a great success. Gerell's realistic artworks of landscape and animal motifs at the beginning of his career were catalysed by the impressionist movement. During the 1920s her painting changed to a new objectivity with a serene radiance and elements of purism. Interiors, portraits and still lifes became her inspirations and were executed with the utmost preciseness. Greta Gerell lived in accordance with anthroposophy since her youth, which, according to her, did not directly influence her painting but accompanied her throughout her life. In 1967, the Greta Gerell Foundation was established to support anthroposophical activities in Sweden. Art critic Karl Asplund described her painting as "a skilled realism, imbued with a quiet, warm feeling for the subject."

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