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Carl Milles (Swedish, 1875-1955)
A Figural Sculpture, circa 1900

17 June 2015, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Carl Milles (Swedish, 1875-1955)

A Figural Sculpture, circa 1900
bronze, depicting a young nude woman sat on a lilypad, she looks over her shoulder while smoothing her hair with one hand
27cm by 41cm by 39.5cm, signed in cast 'Milles', with impressed Paris foundry mark

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Provenance:
The Victor Arwas Collection

Carl Vilhelm Emil Milles was born in Lagga, near Upsala in Sweden. In 1897, he went to Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and where he met Rodin, whose assistant he became. Milles first exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais in 1899, and was awarded a Mention Honorable in 1900.

After returning to Sweden, he taught at the Royal Academy in Stockholm, before moving to the United States in 1930. He was appointed as a professor at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, and his first American exhibition took place at the Fine Arts Museum in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1931. He received a vast number of commissions for Public statuary in the US, including the Peace Monument in Saint Paul, Minnesota and a large figure housed in the Time-Life Building in Radio City in the Rockefeller Center in New York.

His works are held in a number of museums around the world, including the Tate Gallery in London, the Stockholm Museum in Sweden, the Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

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