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Carl Milles(Sweden, 1875-1955)
"Jona och valfisken"
Hammer price
155 000SEK
Estimate
75 000 - 100 000 SEK

"Jona och valfisken"

Signed C. Milles. Foundry mark L.Rasmussen, Köbenhavn. Bronze, green patina. Height 38.5 cm (including black stonebase 49 cm).

Literature

Henrik Cornell, "Carl Milles - Hans verk", SAK, 1963, Stockholm. The motif described and compare ill. at p. 91 (the fountain version).
Henrik Cornell, "Milles skönhetsvärld", 1957, compare ill. pl. 26.
Erik Näslund, "Carl Milles - en biografi", 1991, mthe motif described and compare ill. at p. 248 (the fountain version).

More information

"Jonafontänen" was executed in 1932 in Cranbrook. The motif is also exhibited in Eskilstuna and at Millesgården, both in Sweden.

More about Carl Milles

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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