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Carl Fredrik Hill

(Sweden, 1849-1911)
Estimate
500 000 - 600 000 SEK
44 400 - 53 300 EUR
45 900 - 55 000 USD
Hammer price
360 000 SEK
Purchasing info
Carl Fredrik Hill
(Sweden, 1849-1911)

French Orchard

Probably executed in Bois-le-Roi in the summer of 1876. Oil on canvas laid down on paper-panel 21.5 x 28 cm.

Provenance

Originally private collection in the south of Sweden (by descent within the same family for a couple of generations, acquired by the original owner, born in 1883, around 1900); private collection (acquired through purchase, around 2000); Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, Sale 574, "Vårens Klassiska", May 28-31 2013, lot 85; Rolf Schmitz Collection.

Literature

Sten Åke Nilsson, "Carl Fredrik Hill -Maximus pictor", 2011, mentioned page 40 and illustrated full page in colour, page 140.

More information

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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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