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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2023 | Stockholms Auktionsverk | Stockholm | Modern & Contemporary | 519 | $****** - ****** | "Sunrise in Port". |
paintings
50 x 61 cm (19.69 x 24.02 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed CK on the back
Purchased directly from the artist, then inherited within the same family.
Swedish-French Art Gallery, Stockholm 1934, cat. no. 31 The sun"s rays slowly climb over the horizon and give life to a new day. The sails are hoisted, and man is on his way to a new, unknown, goal.
CARL KYLBERG. "Sunrise in Port".
Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm. Signed CK on the back.
The frame made by the artist"s wife Ruth Kylberg.
With his light-saturated painting with floating forms, hot color scale and an often religious undertone, Carl Kylberg created a completely new type of art. For this fearless color poet, color was spiritual forms and expressions of the soul. He even went so far as to call all his works self-portraits.
Kylberg is considered one of the portal figures in Swedish 20th-century art, and today his place in Swedish art history is obvious. But it hasn"t always been that way. Like all distinctive artists, Kylberg was opposed and misunderstood. Some art critics spoke of the dissolution of form and modern decay, others that his art was confusing. This culminated in the uproar surrounding the painting "The Upbreak" in 1937, when the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs Arthur Engberg forbade the National Museum to acquire the aforementioned painting on the grounds that it lacked "dignity".
Carl Kylberg"s artistic success came rather late in life. His first solo exhibition was held in Stockholm in 1926, when the artist was approaching fifty. After decades of modest success and a struggle to make ends meet, he and wife Ruth could now enjoy greater financial freedom. During the 1930s, the family spent the summers in Zealand, where the artist had peace of mind and a beautiful environment. In his landscape pictures from the time, the colors and shapes glow, and the sunlight creates almost sacral spaces where the trees become pillars and the sky a church vault. It is also at this time that "Sunrise in harbour" is added. The motif, with the blue boat in the center of the picture plane and the warming light of the sun, is recurring in his mind. But in the background you can also see what looks like a cargo ship, with billowing white smoke billowing out of a chimney. The contours are blurred, the color fields dissolved, which is highly deliberate. Kylberg said himself “don"t be too clear, because that tone soon wears out. There are worlds behind the obvious.” It is precisely these worlds that Kylberg wants to evoke, with color as a brilliant mediator between fantasy and reality.
