Carl Milles

Bukowski Auktioner, Important Winter Sale 637, 8 - 10 December 2021, lot 648.

Conrad Köper, "Carl Milles", 1913, p. 49.

Henrik Cornell, "Carl Milles. Hans verk", SAK, 1963, the motif included in the catalogue raisonné, p. 247.

Erik Näslund, "Carl Milles - A Biography", 1991, the motif mentioned p. 46, depicted in another version p. 47, and included in the catalogue raisonné p. 332.

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.