Carl Milles
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"Jona och valfisken" (= Jonah and the whale)
Signed C. Milles and numbered 10/12. Foundry mark OBB Cire-perdue. Bronze, green patina. Height 38 cm (including stone base 48.5 cm).
Provenance
From the Collection of Forrester Nils and Inga-Lill Hultmark, Torps Estate, Västergötland, Sweden.
Literature
Henrik Cornell, "Carl Milles - Hans verk", SAK, 1963, Stockholm. The motif described and compare ill. at p. 91 (the fountain version).
Henrik Cornell, "Milles skönhetsvärld", 1957, compare ill. pl. 26.
Erik Näslund, "Carl Milles - en biografi", 1991, mthe motif described and compare ill. at p. 248 (the fountain version).
More information
"Jonafontänen" was executed in 1932 in Cranbrook. The motif is also exhibited in Eskilstuna and at Millesgården, both in Sweden.
Artist
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.
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