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Carl Milles(Sweden, 1875-1955)
Woman churning butter
Hammer price
32 000SEK
Estimate
30 000 - 35 000 SEK

Woman churning butter

Signed Carl Milles Holland. Foundry mark Sigilles-Bruxelles Bronzes. Bronze, brown patina. Height 27.5 cm. The motif conceived 1903.

Literature

Conrad Köper, "Carl Milles", 1913, ill. at p.69 (there called "Smörkärnerska" (= Woman churning butter)).
M.P. Verneuil, "Carl Milles. Sculpteur suédois", 1929, compare ill. no 2 at p. 19 (there called "Hollandaise - etude").
Erik Näslund, "Carl Milles - en biografi", 1991,the motif listed at p. 333 under the year 1903.

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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