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Agnes Cleve

(Sweden, 1876-1951)
Estimate
80 000 - 100 000 SEK
7 150 - 8 940 EUR
7 260 - 9 070 USD
Hammer price
65 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Finland: Kuvasto

Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Lena Rydén
Stockholm
Lena Rydén
Head of Art, Specialist Modern and 19th century Art
+46 (0)707 78 35 71
Agnes Cleve
(Sweden, 1876-1951)

"A window to the world" (Fönstret mot Världen)

Signed Agnes Cleve and dated -36. Canvas 100 x 70 cm.

Exhibitions

Stenungsunds konsthall, "Agnes Cleve", 6/6-17/8 2019.
Uppsala konstmuseum, "Agnes Cleve
Svensk modernist i världen", 6 February - 1 May 2016.
Galleri Ferm, Göteborg, 2016.
Øregaard Museum, Danmark, "Agnes Cleve - Modernist och mønsterbryder", 1/2-31/5 2015.
2014 Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Agnes Cleve - en svensk modernist i världen", 10 May - 7 September 2014

Literature

Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Agnes Cleve - en svensk modernist i världen", 2014, exhibition catalogue, ill fullpage in colour p. 67.

More information

Agnes Cleve och John Jon-And träffades i Paris 1913-1914 på "Academie de la Palette", där de gick i lära hos le Fauconnier. I Paris kom de i kontakt med avant-garde kretsar och mötte konstnärsparet Vassily Kandinsky och Gabriele Münter. De båda var starka företrädare för den tyska moderna expressionismen och den franska kubismen samt medlemmar i den tyska konstnärsgruppen Der Blaue Reiter. Agnes Cleve och John Jon-And påverkades starkt av deras måleri, särskilt Cleve lyckades förena Matisse kolorit med det kubistiska perspektivet. Vänskapen med Kandinsky och Gabriele Münter bestod och under första världskriget kom det rysk-tyska paret till Sverige. I Stockholm fick de hyra Cleve/Jon-Ands Stockholmsateljé och Kandinsky tryckte grafik på en handpress som John Jon-And byggt. Tillsammans vistades de också på Hurdan vid Gullmarsfjorden på västkusten, där paret Jon-And hade sitt sommarnöje.

Under slutet av 30-talet vistas oftast både sonen Per-Erik, som föddes 1915, och systersönerna Teddy och Clas Brunius på Hurdan. Agnes återfår under denna period också kontakten med dottern Barbro, som hon fick i sitt tidigare äktenskap och hon gläds åt att de två syskonen äntligen kan lära känna varandra.

I auktionens målning är Per-Erik Jon-And, John och Agnes gemensamme son, ungefär 21 år. Han står vid ett fönster och blickar ut mot en värld och framtid som ligger öppen för honom

Artist

Agnes Cleve was born in Uppsala in 1876. After completing her secondary education, she studied art at the School of Arts and Crafts in Stockholm. When she started a family she moved to Gothenburg and studied art at Valand where Carl Wilhelmsson was her teacher. After a difficult divorce, Angnes moved to Paris in 1913, where she studied for Le Fauconnier together with John Jon-And. They eventually got married, and later moved to Stockholm and settling in Gothenburg. The couple often stayed at their summer cottage by the Gullmar Fjord, a place called Källviken, which became a gathering point for several artists, including the couple Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky was, in his homecountry Germany, the leader of the group “Der Blaue Reiter”, a group which advocated for cubism and German modernism. It is without a doubt that they influences Agnes Cleve and Jon-And. Cleve has done several artists trips to paint Sandhamn, Skagen, London, Italy, Holland, Belgium, North Africa, Spain, Turkey, and the USA (where he even lived for a period). In Cleve’s collection, one can find figure paintings, window views, portraits, cityscapes, and west coast genres. Agnes Cleve's art was exhibited across Europe (Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, among others). There was a lot of talk surrounding her exhibition together with none other than Sigrid Hjertén in Paris in 1937, and she was classified by a German critic as Sweden’s most influential artist during the first half of the 20th century. She is currently represented by the National Museum, Gothenburg’s Art Museum, Gävle Museum, Norrköping’s Museum to name a few.

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