Carl Milles
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Triton with fishes
Signed C. Milles and numbered 1/12. Foundry mark DBB Cire Perdue. Bronze, dark patina. Height 52 cm.
Provenance
Axel Linds Kunstmuseum Grenen, Skagen, Denmark.
Literature
Editor Eva and Axel Lind, "Grenen Kunstmuseum, Skagen",1977, the lot at the auction mentioned at page 85.
Editor Axel Lind, "Grenen Kunstmuseum - 20 års jubileumskatalog", the lot at the auction as picture, page 84, mentioned page 80.
More information
A recurring theme in Carl Milles's work is the mythological beings in the ocean. He returned often to the Tritons in all their forms. His large fountain sculptures such as "The Meeting of the Waters," "Europa and the bull," The Poseidon fountain" and "The Triton fountain" exhibit Poseidon's children -- the demigods.
Designer
Carl Milles was a Swedish sculptor born in Lägga. He studied at the Technical School in Stockholm, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Auguste Rodin and on study trips to Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. In Paris he came to stay for many years and made a living as an ornament carver. He studied the animals in the Jardin des Plantes (the Zoological Garden) and was strongly influenced by Auguste Rodin. Milles made a breakthrough with a monument to Sten Sture in Uppsala. He exhibited at the World's Fair in 1900 and was later given a solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. Milles was professor of modeling at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Well-known sculptures in public places signed by Carl Milles are the "Gustav Vasa" statue at the Nordic Museum, "Orfeusgruppen" outside the concert hall in Stockholm and the "Poseidonfontänen" in Gothenburg.
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