"Afton" ("Evening")
Signed C F HiLL. Executed in Paris 1877/1878. Oil on canvas 82 x 100.5 cm.
The collections of Baroness Henriette Coyet, Torup Castle, Scania, Sweden (acquired from the Hill family, possibly through HRH Prince Eugen of Sweden, Duke of Närke); Margaretha Nyman (née von Leithner, Baroness Coyet's granddaughter), Lund, Sweden; Stockholms Auktionsverk, "Stora Kvalitén", 26 November 2009, lot 2098; private collection.
Malmö Museum, Sweden, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Retrospektiv utställning", 1933, no. 122; Galleri Färg och Form, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911)", February 1943, no. 89; Föreningen Malmö Konsthall, Malmö rådhus (Malmö City Hall), Sweden, "Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911)", March 1943, no. 79; Liljevalchs Konsthall (Liljevalch Art Gallery), Stockholm, Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, "Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885", 1944, no. 244; Nationalmuseum (National Gallery of Art), Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill 1849-1911", September - October 1949, no. 164 (under the title "Afton [Det lutande trädet]"); Skånska Konstmuseum, Universitetet, Lund (University of Lund), Sweden, "För att lära känna Hill", 19 April - 3 May 1953, no. 23 (under the title "Afton [Det lutande trädet]"); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, "Carl Fredrik Hill", 10 April - 7 June 1976, no. 55; Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill", 17 September 2011 - 29 January 2012; Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå, Denmark, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Sveriges store landskabsmaler", 4 October 2015 – 31 January 2016.
Adolf Anderberg, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Hans liv och hans verk. Del I", 1926, illustrated p. 154; Viggo Loos, "Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885", 1945, mentioned p. 231 and listed in the catalogue under "Kap. IX Carl Fredrik Hill", p. 341; Erik Blomberg, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Hans friska och sjuka konst", 1949, mentioned p. 67, listed in the catalogue p. 100 and illustrated full page in the plate section; Adolf Anderberg, "Carl Hill. Hans liv och hans konst", 1951, listed in the catalogue under "Dröm och vision: Slutet av år 1877 och de första månaderna 1878", p. 310, mentioned p. 255, illustrated full page Färgpl. X. (opposite p. 256) and in interior photo from the exhibition at Galleri Färg och Form, Stockholm, February 1943, p. 264; Sten Åke Nilsson, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Maximus Pictor", 2011, mentioned p. 45 and illustrated full page in colour, p. 175; "Carl Fredrik Hill. Sveriges store landskabsmaler", exhibition catalogue, Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Denmark, 2015, listed in the catalogue p. 210 (under the title "Aften"), mentioned p. 127 and illustrated full page in colour p. 128.
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