Hulda Grønneberg
River and Trees with Snowy Mountains
About the SessionSpanning 4 centuries of global art history, The International Sale, presents 127 exceptional lots by artists from 27 countries across five continents. The auction highlights masterworks ranging from 17th century European paintings to post-2000 editions by contemporary artist's such as Mr Brainwash (lot 51), Jim Dine (lots 83-86), Isaac Julien (lot 108), Jeff Koons (45), and Lucas Samaras (lot 107 and 110). The sale is anchored by important pieces from Georg Baselitz, Erik Laubscher, Shirin Neshat, and a newly repatriated 1935 portrait by Irma Stern.
The auction's diversity is driven by rare museum-quality highlights, led by Irma Stern's Two Women (lot 31), which returns to South Africa after decades in a Berlin private collection. It is joined by Erik Laubscher's rare recto-verso painting Young Family / Construction (lot 48), an Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat photographic portrait linked to her award-winning Turbulent installation (lot 66), and a uniquely hand-coloured linocut by German master Georg Baselitz titled Das Pferd, Im Wald und auf der Heide Series (The Horse, in the Forest and on the Heath Series) (lot 72).
LOT 18
Hulda Grønneberg
River and Trees with Snowy Mountains
About this Item
signed; inscribed with the artist's name and biographical details on the reverse
Provenance
Russell Kaplan Auctioneers, Johannesburg, 3 December 2023, lot 44.
Notes
Hulda Grønneberg was a Norwegian landscape painter whose most frequent subjects included mountains, villages, and gardens. She studied at Knud Bergslien’s painting school in Christiania (now Oslo) before training under Hermine Biedermann-Arentz in Munich during the late 1870s. Working en plein air, Grønneberg approached the natural world with direct observation. Although she began exhibiting in the mid 1870s, her most active period was the 1880s, culminating in her participation at the 1889 World Exhibition in Paris. After living in Christiania, she became one of the first artists to settle in Drøbak, where she nurtured an artistic community and continued to paint throughout her life.
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