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Johanne Valeur Kyhn (f. Bruun) (b. Nykøbing F. 1886, d. København)

Still life with red geraniums, Summer 1909. Signed and dated on the reversel. Oil on canvas. 70×55 cm.

Johanne Valeur Kyhn is educated by Marie Lupau and Emilie Mundt from 1902–03. She works for a number of years at Den Kgl. Poreclænsfabrik's art department and at the same time she travels abroad. In 1910 she marries the painter Knud Kyhn, but the marriage dissolves in 1922.

The youth work with the underglaze painting at Den kgl. Porcelainsfabrik characterizes Valeur Kyhn's early pictures, but under the influence of Knud Kyhn, a stronger form of expression and clearer stylistic efforts in a decorative direction appear. However, she does not abandon the basic naturalistic view, but paints flowers, arrangements and landscapes in a broad and summary rendering.

Valeur Kyhn repeatedly exhibits at the Kunstnernes Efterårsutstilling, Charlottenborg - as well as the Kvindlige Kunstneres retrospective exhibition in 1920.

This lot is part of our ongoing theme: Pioneering Women Artists 1850-1950

This lot is subject to Artist's Royalty.
Condition

Three small repairs on the reverse.

Additional Remarks

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Auction

Modern art and design, 12 March 2024

Category

Modern Paintings ▸ Classical modernism

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3,000–4,000 DKK

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