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( 1875 - 1955 ) - Sculptures Wikipedia® - Carl Milles
Bukowskis / Jun 12, 2012
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Variants on Artist's name :
Milles Vilhelm Carl Emil
Andersson Vilhelm Carl Emil
Milles Carl Vilhelm Emil
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Some works of Carl Milles
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Carl Milles - The Struggle For Existence
Original
Auction:
Bonhams -
Dec 18, 2012- London
Lot number:
365
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Carl Wilhelm Emile Milles, Swedish / American (1875-1955) A bronze model The Struggle For Existence
depicting two male figures and a female figure emerging from an abstract base and reaching outward, signed
Carl Milles
,
19.5cm high
Carl Milles is Sweden's best known sculptor, but his connection to the United States also runs long and deep. Born Carl Wilhelm Andersson near Uppsala in 1875, he moved to Paris when he was 22. Soon after his arrival, his encounter with Auguste Rodin's monumental sculpture of Balzac at the autumn salon of 1897 would permanently change his artistic vision. He wrote later: "I was completely overwhelmed by it, and life began to have meaning for me." The young artist went to work in Rodin's studio, and exhibited in the annual Paris salons under the name Carl Milles from 1899 until his return to Sweden in 1906.
Milles created numerous works for public spaces in the United States, the most famous of which is The Meeting of the Waters fountain group in Saint Louis, Missouri (1940).
Carl Wilhelm Emile Milles, Swedish / American (1875-1955)
A bronze model
The Struggle For Existence
Carl Milles - Holländska Fiskarkvinnor I Blåst
Original 1903
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CARL MILLES
1875-1955
Holländska fiskarkvinnor i blåst (Kvinnor i storm)
Signerad Carl Millès, Hollande. Patinerad brons, höjd 25 cm.
Utförd 1903
Ett exemplar finns i Nationalmuseums samlingar, tre exemplar såldes till kungen av Italien. Ett exemplar ställdes ut på Salon national des Beaux-Arts 1904, München Intern. Austellung 1905, Rom och Venedig (ingen uppgift om utställning).
LITTERATUR: Conrad Köper: Carl Milles, Stockholm 1913, avbildad sidan 63
M.P. Verneuil: Carl Milles, Bruxelles 1929, avbildad sidan 18
Meyric R. Rogers: Carl Milles, New Heaven, 1940, avbildad plansch 1A
Erik Näslund: Carl Milles - en biografi, Förlags AB Wiken 1991, avbildad sidan 49
Conrad Knöper skriver:
"Ett av de vackraste arbeten från denna lugna arbetstid har blivit uppskattat till sitt värde genom att inköpas av Nationalmuseum i Stockholm: "Fyra kvinnor i storm". Även här ha vi i främsta rummet framför oss skulptur, en av ljusets spel levandegjord bild. I detta arbete upptar Milles samma skulpturala problem, som Rodin har behandlat i "Borgarna från Calais".
Signerad C. Millès Hollande, ej Carl Millès Hollande.
Signed C. Millès Hollande, not Carl Millès Hollande
Carl Milles - Hovsmederna
Original
Auction:
Bukowskis -
Dec 4, 2012- Stockholm
Lot number:
191
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191.
Carl Milles
1875-1955
"Hovsmederna" (=At the blacksmith's).
Signed C. Milles and with foundry mark Herman Bergman Fud. From 1906. Bronze, dark patina. Height 18 cm.
Henrik Cornell, "Milles skönhetsvärld", 1957, reproduced page 59, plate no 2.
Erik Näslund, "Carl Milles - en biografi", 1991, reproduced page 52 and listed at page 333.
Carl Milles - Celebration To The Automobil
Original
Auction:
Bukowskis -
Jun 12, 2012- Stockholm
Lot number:
147
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147.
Carl Milles
1875-1955
Celebration to the automobil.
Signed Carl Milles. Foundry mark Herman Bergman Fud. Bronze, green patina. Height 96 cm.
Sold at Bukowskis International Spring auction, 1996, auction no 500, cat.no 195.
A version of "Celebration to the automobile" was commissioned by General Motors for the World' Fair in Chicago in 1933. That sculpture was executed in plaster and would presumably have been cast in bronze and eventually placed in General Motors's permanent collection. Instead of a car, the man in the sculpture was holding a connecting rod. In the news articles of that period, the sculpture went under the name of "Inspiration." Neither of the two ever received the bronze casting and the present lot is the only one of its kind known to exist today.
Carl Milles - Vingarna (the Wings)
Original 1907
Auction:
Bonhams -
May 15, 2012- New York
Lot number:
72
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Carl Milles (Swedish, 1875-1955)
Vingarna (The Wings)
unique example, cast by the Art Bronze Foundry London Ltd., 1983
signed 'C Milles' (on base)
bronze
height 47in, width 12 1/4in, depth 15 3/4in
CERTIFICATE:
William Wareing, Curator, Millesgården, Lidingö, Sweden, 11 July 2005
PROVENANCE (of the original plaster):
The personal collection of Carl Milles, Lidingö, Sweden
Alf Wallander, Stockholm, Sweden
S. Martensson, Stockholm, Sweden
A. Winberg, Vikingstad, Sweden
Birger Gustaf Paulson, Linköping
Thence by inheritance to the Benya collection, Boca Raton, Florida
Permanent collection, Millesgården, Lidingö, Sweden
Carl Milles is Sweden's best known sculptor, but his connection to the United States also runs long and deep. Born Carl Wilhelm Andersson near Uppsala in 1875, he moved to Paris when he was 22. Soon after his arrival, his encounter with Auguste Rodin's monumental sculpture of Balzac at the autumn salon of 1897 would permanently change his artistic vision. He wrote later: "I was completely overwhelmed by it, and life began to have meaning for me." The young artist went to work in Rodin's studio, and exhibited in the annual Paris salons under the name Carl Milles from 1899 until his return to Sweden in 1906.
Milles was invited to the United States by publisher George Gough Booth in 1931, to be sculptor-in-residence at Booth's Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He and his wife Olga remained at Cranbrook for over twenty years, and Milles produced dozens of sculptures, not only for Cranbrook (which today has the largest collection of Milles' work outside of Sweden), but also for other public spaces in the United States, the most famous of which is The Meeting of the Waters fountain group in Saint Louis, Missouri (1940).
The classical inspiration behind Milles' sculpture naturally led to larger-than-life nudes that sometimes caused consternation among an often puritanical American public, and apparently the sculptor kept a "fig-leaf maker" in residence. Also, as in Classical sculpture, the works of Milles could sometimes be seen as having homoerotic undertones. Vingarna, inspired by the Greek myth of Zeus' love for the handsome young Trojan prince, Ganymede, actually became the centerpiece of what was probably the first film ever made about homosexual love, Vingarne (1918), by Swedish director Mauritz Stiller.
Milles and Olga returned definitively to Sweden and their beloved home, Millesgården, in 1951. He died in 1955, leaving an important legacy of public sculpture in Sweden and throughout the world. The Millesgården, according to his wishes, is now a public museum, garden and sculpture park.
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Vingarna was created by Carl Milles in circa 1907, shortly after returning to his homeland after his life-changing experience in Paris. He created several different plaster "sketches" in different sizes, the present version being of an intermediate size. A smaller version (23.2in / 59cm) was later cast in bronze, as was the monumental version (110in / 270cm), casts of which are found today in the Millesgården in Lidingo, on the Skeppsholmen bridge in front of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and in Götheborg.
Milles apparently had a particular affection for this intermediate-sized plaster sketch, and kept it in his personal collection until finally accepting to give it to his friend and fellow artist Alf Wallander, in exchange for various services and loans provided by Wallander during those years when Milles was still struggling to become known in Sweden.
The plaster changed hands several times in the following decades without ever having been cast in bronze, until the present owners approached Michael Gaskin of the Art Bronze Foundry London. Gaskin, whose company has cast bronzes for artists such as Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein and Anthony Caro, was impressed by the quality of the work and agreed to take on the challenge of making a unique cast in bronze. This cast was later exceptionally sanctioned by the Millesgården's directors (the Millesgården holds exclusive rights to the casting of Milles' work), in view of the mastery of the Art Bronze Foundry's casting and patination. The original plaster is now conserved in the Millesgården's collection under inventory number M 74 B.
The journey of the plaster sculpture from Millesgarden to the United States and back to its original home would probably have pleased Milles, as it reflects his own peregrinations, and the quality and beauty of the bronze cast would certainly have met with the sculptor's own demanding standards. Vingarna remains one of the most beautiful works from Milles' Rodinesque period, and the vigorous modeling and accessible proportions of this version easily explain why the plaster earned a place in the sculptor's personal collection.