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Carl Kylberg

(Sweden, 1878-1952)
Estimate
175 000 - 200 000 SEK
15 600 - 17 900 EUR
15 900 - 18 100 USD
Hammer price
120 000 SEK
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Lena Rydén
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Carl Kylberg
(Sweden, 1878-1952)

"Klarheten bryter igenom"

Signed CK and on the reverse signed Carl Kylberg. Executed in 1931. Canvas laid on panel 80 x 68 cm. Frame by the artist's wife, Ruth.

Provenance

Ruth Kylberg, the artist's wife.
Nordén Auctions, Stockholm, Scandinavian art and antiques, October 25, 1994, cat. no. 111.

Exhibitions

Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, 1934, cat. no. 67.
Galerie Billiet, Paris, 1935, cat. no. 14.
Konstakademien, Stockholm, Retrospective exhibition, 1937, cat. no. 137.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Memorial Exhibition, 1954, cat. no. 76.
Konstakademien, Stockholm, Memorial Exhibition, 1962, cat. no. 50.
Malmö Museum, Memorial Exhibition, 1962-1963, cat. no. 34.
Riksförbundet för bildande konst, "Elektronrörfabriken".

Literature

Brita Knyphausen, "Carl Kylberg - Color and Idea", 1964, cat. no. 141, p. 251.

Artist

Carl Kylberg, 1878-1952, is considered a seminal figure in the Swedish 1900-century art. He was a student at the architecture department at Berlin University and then a student of Carl Wilhelmson at Valand art school in Gothenburg.

Kylberg broke through late, made his debut as a painter in 1919 with the February group at Liljevalchs. He became known to a wider public by the age of 50, but continued to be controversial as an artist. He had a permanent artistic antagonist of Isaac Grünewald and the same year as the Nazis in Germany set up the decisive blow against Entartete Kunst and practically the whole of modernism, Swedish government stopped the purchase of the painting "Uppbrottet" of the National Museum in Stockholm.

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