Gloria
Crayon on paper 18 x 23.5 cm.
Provenance
Previously in the collection of Fil. Dr. Adolf Anderberg (1885-1968).
Lilla Galleriet, Malmö.
Director Jackie Neuman, Stockholm.
The collection of Bertil Neuman (1921-2011).
Exhibitions
Malmö konsthall, ”C.F. Hill Exhibition”, 1976, cat. no. 326.
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, ”Hill-Munch”, 1987, cat. no. 120.
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, 1995.
Literature
Sten-Åke Nilsson, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Ur Bertil Neumans samlingar", Uppsala 2012, p. 38, illustrated p. 39.
More information
According to the catalogue for the major Hill exhibition in Malmö in 1976, "Gloria" is number two in a series of at least six drawings, all variations on a motif from the port of Bordeaux, "Le Port de Bordeaux," painted by the Frenchman Edouard Manet in 1871. Carl Fredrik Hill may very well have seen Manet's painting in person and, with his excellent visual memory, recreated his own version of it many years later. "Le Port de Bordeaux," with its bustling scenes of everyday life and its multitude of masts, ship hulls, and background buildings, is highly evocative and was widely disseminated in Hill's time through various prints and reproductions, which may have reached him in that way.
In comparison to Manet's work, the motif in Hill's drawing is strongly reduced. The forest of masts has been replaced by a clear sea horizon, and all focus is directed towards the ship Gloria (Latin for "Glory"), whose name is prominently inscribed both on the stern and on the starboard side.
More about Carl Fredrik Hill
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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