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Carl Fredrik Hill

(Sweden, 1849-1911)
Estimate
275 000 - 300 000 SEK
24 300 - 26 500 EUR
25 300 - 27 600 USD
Hammer price
320 000 SEK
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Carl Fredrik Hill
(Sweden, 1849-1911)

Landscape with trees and still water

Signed CF Hill Stenfors Juli. Executed during Hill's stay in Sweden in the summer of 1875. Oil on relined canvas 61 x 75 cm.

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, year and date unknown, no. 208 (under the title "La mare"); Phillips, London, "19th Century European Paintings & Drawings", 13 June 1995; Åmells konsthandel, Stockholm; private collection.

Exhibitions

Åmells Konsthandel, Stockholm, "Höstutställning", 1995, catalogue 36, no. 10; Åmells Fine Art Gallery, London, 2000, "Exhibition of Paintings by Carl Fredrik Hill".

Literature

Adolf Anderberg, "Carl Hill. Hans liv och hans konst", 1951, compare p. 136-138; Sten Åke Nilsson, 'Det gränslösa arbetet', article in (Ed.) Karin Sidén, "Carl Fredrik Hill", exhibition catalogue, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1999, compare p. 24-25.

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Artist

Carl Fredrik Hill was a Swedish artist born in Lund. Hill is considered one of Sweden's formost landscape painters. His fate and artistry are perhaps the strangest but most interesting in Swedish art history. Born in an academic home in Lund, despite his father's protests, he managed to begin studies at the Art Academy in Stockholm and then traveled to France, where he came in contact with Corot's landscape painting. He found his inspiration in Barbizon and later on the River Oise, in Luc-sur-Mer and Bois-le-Roi. He painted frantically with the hope of being accepted into the Salon de Paris. Already during his student years, he struggled with an incipient mental illness and at the age of 28 he was taken to the mental hospital in Passy. During the hospital stay he began his rich production of drawings and then continued with the production after his return to Lund, where he was cared for by his family for the rest of his life. In thousands drawings, a fantasy world of figures scenes appears. Today, Hill's river landscape and flowering fruit trees from the years in France, together with the visionary drawings from the period of illness in Lund, have received great recognition. His art depicts a loneliness and longing that is easy to get caught up in. He is mainly represented at the Malmö Museum and at the National Museum in Stockholm.

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