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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 14, 2023 | Stockholms Auktionsverk | Stockholm | Fine Art & Antiques | 334 | $****** - ****** | French landscape with river. |
paintings
66 x 82 cm (25.98 x 32.28 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed Frits Thaulow.
FRITS THAULOW (NORGE,1847-1906). French landscape with river.
Oil on canvas, 66 x 82 cm. Signed Frits Thaulow.
Stockholms Auktionsverk would like to thank Vidar Poulsson for help in cataloging this work.
Galerie Heinemann, Munich Bukowski auctions, Stockholm, April 23, 1986.
Beijer"s auctions, Stockholm, 7 November 1989.
Private collection, Stockholm.
Frits Thaulow, one of Norway"s internationally most famous artists, made himself appreciated and liked both at home and on the continent during his artistic career. Based on Norway"s inspiring and powerful nature, he developed a keen eye for its elements and shifts, but it was above all in France that he found his main inspiration during his artistry.
However, the career choice was not obvious for Frits Thaulow. His father was a pharmacist and had other plans for his son, who was first allowed to take a pharmacy degree. When it was completed, he turned around and began to train as an artist. Thaulow studied at the Art Academy in Copenhagen from 1870 to 1872, after which he continued to study for the Norwegian landscape and marine painter Hans Gude in Karlsruhe, Germany. After choosing to devote himself entirely to landscape painting, he went to Paris in 1875, where he was greatly impressed by the realism of Jules Bastien Lepage and the depictions of the watercolorist Charles Daubigny. Another inspirer was Carl Skåneberg, who was part of the early Swedish group of plein air painters who had sought France in the mid-1870s.
Thaulow made many trips mainly to France, but also to Belgium and the USA. In France, he spent long periods in Normandy, including in Dieppe. He appreciated the varied landscape of the region, not least the old villages along the rivers with their bridges and inland nature. Normandy had appealed to many artists before Thaulow, including many Impressionists. Impressionism, this revolutionary art direction, which was initially rejected in the 1870s, was now established and allowed into the fine rooms. Thaulow was impressed by how they dissolved their subjects with a spectrum of colors in his own depictions of water, but throughout his artistry maintained a more academic naturalism in his works. The contours of the landscape thus had to remain distinguishable and the nature less dissolved. Sometimes his style has been called a mixture of realistic and impressionistic landscape painting.
During the years 1875-1905, when France became his second homeland, he kept in touch with Norway, through longer visits and participation in the domestic hot art debate. He was extremely attached to France from an artistic perspective, but also because of its market, which no one else could match at the end of the 19th century. Thaulow, like Anders Zorn, was discovered in Paris by American patrons in the 1890s, launching both their careers internationally. Another equally important reason for Thaulow"s stronghold in France was his association there. He had become very much included in the community of the French art world where prominent artists such as Claude Monet and August Rodin were his friends. The French critics went so far as to call him "notre Thaulow".
The works in the auction provide an exquisite sample of Thaulow"s ability to harmonize the meeting between nature and culture in his landscape painting. Autumn winds move in and cause reeds and treetops to sway. The central river with its ripples, pulls us along in its diagonal direction towards the city. An old bridge with Romanesque arches leads to high, white house walls, built with the surrounding"s own stone. Smoke billows from a factory chimney over the silhouette, one of the realistic features that testify to the work"s contemporaneity and human presence. The landscape otherwise has a musty color scale. The oldest low houses have brownish-red roofs, securely laid of brick, and the burgundy and golden leaf crowns in the distance frame the subject. In a classic, impressionistic manner, the colors are reflected in the atmospheric river. There is, despite the rippling movement, a snug calm in the captivating, beautiful change of nature.
