Carl Milles

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Gift to the director of the Lorensberg theater when he retired in 1919.
Sold at Bukowskis auction, in November 1992 as catalogue number 188, to the present owner.

Göran Söderlund, "Carl Milles - A private collection", 1989, picture, catalogue number 17.
Erik Näslund, "Carl Milles - en biografi", 1991, mentioned in the list of works as "Torso av kvinna med äpple"(mentioned as a preliminary study for one of the four allegoric figures of woman mounted on the marble timepiece "The times of day and night).

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.