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Painter, b. 1893 - d. 1940

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    • Nils Gren (Swedish American 1893-1940)
      Dec. 15, 2024

      Nils Gren (Swedish American 1893-1940)

      Est: $4,000 - $6,000

      Nils Gren (Swedish American 1893-1940) 'Evening' Titled signed verso' oil on board image: 19 in. (48 cm.) x 15-1/2 in.(39 cm.) frame: 25 in. (63 cm.) x 21 in. (53 cm.) Bearing label: 57th Exhibition San Francisco Museum of Art Gren moved to Southern California where he studied art with the prominent synchromist painter Stanton MacDonald Wright (1890-1973). He moved to San Francisco in the late 1920s. Unfulfilled with his style to that point, around 1930 he destroyed much of his earlier work.

      Fine Estate Inc.
    • Nils Gren (1893-1940) Silent Men, 1936 Lithograph on wove paper 15-1/4 x 18-3/4
      Dec. 05, 2022

      Nils Gren (1893-1940) Silent Men, 1936 Lithograph on wove paper 15-1/4 x 18-3/4

      Est: $500 - $700

      Nils Gren (1893-1940) Silent Men, 1936 Lithograph on wove paper 15-1/4 x 18-3/4 inches (38.7 x 47.6 cm) (sheet) Signed, dated, and titled in pencil along lower edge Created for the Federal Art Project in San Francisco. Included in MOMA's 1936 exhibition "New Horizons in American Art," and in "California Art Today" at the Golden Gate International Exhibition, the world's fair in SF 1939-1940. HID01801242017

      Heritage Auctions
    • NILS GREN The Cloud.
      Sep. 17, 2020

      NILS GREN The Cloud.

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      NILS GREN The Cloud. Oil on board, 1931. 508x635 mm; 20x25 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto, and signed, titled and dated in oil, verso. Ex-collection Art Center, San Francisco, with inscription verso; private collection of Betty and Douglas Duffy (owners of Bethesda Art Gallery); thence by descent to current owner, private collection, Houston. Exhibited "S.F.A.A. Gren," San Francisco Museum of Art, March-April 1940, with the label verso.

      Swann Auction Galleries
    • NILS GREN Solemn Hill, California.
      Sep. 17, 2020

      NILS GREN Solemn Hill, California.

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      NILS GREN Solemn Hill, California. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. 693x840 mm; 27 3/4x33 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto. Ex-collection private collection of Betty and Douglas Duffy (owners of Bethesda Art Gallery); thence by descent to current owner, private collection, Houston. Born in Sweden, as Nils Ahgren, Gren (1893-1940) sailed for Australia in his teens, and intended only to visit, but remained for several years and there received his early artistic training. Though a temporary resident of Sydney, his early work in Australia formed part of the vital movement of emerging modernist practices during the period between the wars, and he was an important member of the city's contemporary cultural milieu. By 1919, Gren had immigrated to New York and found work as a designer for a pattern manufacturer. In 1925, he moved to Southern California where he studied art with the prominent synchromist painter Stanton MacDonald Wright (1890-1973), whose work had been of significant importance to the late 1910s colour-music experiments of the Australian artists Roland Wakelin (1887-1971) and Roy de Maistre (1894-1968), with whom Gren had trained in Sydney, and which no doubt had led him to seek out Wright in Los Angeles. Gren moved to San Francisco in the late 1920s. Unfulfilled with his style to that point, around 1930 he destroyed much of his earlier work. His extant oil paintings and lithographs from the 1930s are mostly still lifes, landscapes and scenes of San Francisco.

      Swann Auction Galleries
    • Nils Gren (1893 - 1940) "Honore de Balzac"
      Jan. 20, 2019

      Nils Gren (1893 - 1940) "Honore de Balzac"

      Est: $1,000 - $2,000

      Nils Gren (California / Sweden, 1893 - 1940) "Honore de Balzac" Portrait Painting. San Francisco 1931 dated verso. Oil on board. Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. With Handwritten letter to friend by artist verso. Sight size: 21 x 15 inches. Provenance: Private California Collection. In 1925 he had moved to southern California where he studied art with Stanton MacDonald-Wright. He lived in Los Angeles for only a few years before making his final move to San Francisco in the late 1920s. About 1930 he destroyed all of his earlier paintings; any works now extant are those done during the 1930s. During that period he produced lithographs for the WPA project. Gren was active in San Francisco until his death on Aug. 6, 1940. Exh: Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1926; Modern Art Society of LA, 1926; San Francisco Art Association, 1928-29; Paul Elder Gallery (SF), 1932 (solo); Oakland Art Gallery, 1932, 1934; Calif. State Fairs, 1930s; SFMA Inaugural, 1935, 1939 (solo); GGIE, 1939. In: Mission High School, SF (mural); Smithsonian Inst.; Oakland Museum.

      Helmuth Stone
    • Nils Gren (American, 1893-1940) Tulips, c. 1935 15 x 9 1/2in
      Aug. 15, 2010

      Nils Gren (American, 1893-1940) Tulips, c. 1935 15 x 9 1/2in

      Est: $800 - $1,200

      Tulips, c. 1935 signed 'Gren' (lower right) oil on paper affixed to board 15 x 9 1/2in

      Bonhams
    • Nils Gren (American, 1893-1940) Tulips, c. 1935 15 x 9 1/2in
      May. 03, 2010

      Nils Gren (American, 1893-1940) Tulips, c. 1935 15 x 9 1/2in

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      Tulips, c. 1935 signed 'Gren' (lower right) oil on paper affixed to board 15 x 9 1/2in

      Bonhams
    • Nils Gren (American, 1893-1940) Boat House, 1938 20 x 21 3/4in
      Nov. 23, 2009

      Nils Gren (American, 1893-1940) Boat House, 1938 20 x 21 3/4in

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      Boat House, 1938 signed 'Gren' (lower right) and signed, inscribed and dated 'Nils Gren San Francisco 1938' (on the reverse) oil on board 20 x 21 3/4in

      Bonhams
    • Nils Gren (American, 1893-1940) 'Self portrait (Man with beret)', 1933 22 1/2 x 19in
      Aug. 03, 2009

      Nils Gren (American, 1893-1940) 'Self portrait (Man with beret)', 1933 22 1/2 x 19in

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      'Self portrait (Man with beret)', 1933 signed 'Gren' (upper left) and titled, signed and dated 'Man with Beret / self portrait / Nils Gren / 1933' (on the reverse) oil on board 22 1/2 x 19in

      Bonhams
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