'Still Life of Daffodils' by Viggo Rorup, 1963, Paris Modernist, Royal Danish Academy, Charlottenborg

Description

Signed lower right, 'V. Rorup' for Viggo Julius Rorup (Danish, 1903-1971) and dated 1963. Bearing old label verso, from previous … more Signed lower right, 'V. Rorup' for Viggo Julius Rorup (Danish, 1903-1971) and dated 1963. Bearing old label verso, from previous owner, and stamped with exhibition information. Exhibited: Copenhagen Art Association Exhibition, 1964.

A large and vibrant Post-Impressionist still-life showing a profusion of fresh-cut daffodils informally arranged in a jade-green vase and set on a dining room table in a sitting-room.

Viggo Rorup was still a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts when he made his 1928 debut at the Charlottenborg Palace. Following his graduation in 1930, he moved to Odsherred, where he continued his studies under Karl Bovin. Together, they founded the avante-garde group of artists named The Corner, which first introduced the principles of European Modernism to Danish painting. Rorup traveled widely, including to Italy, Austria, Spain, and, most importantly, to France, where his studies of the Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists had a great stylistic impact on his later work. As Rorup continued to paint in the south of France, his palette grew brighter and the earlier, more defined, contours of his forms became subsumed into scintillating nuances of light. We are pleased to offer this elegant and dazzling still-life from the artist's late period.

Exhibitions:
KE 1928-29, 1933-38; Corner Harvest 1939-41; Corner 1942- 71, 1981; Liljevalchs, Sth. 1946; Union Frcia 1947; Nordic Arts Association. 1947; Wild Wheat, Kunstindustrimus. 1948; New Carlsberg Foundation, Charlottenborg Palace, 1952; Cromisterne 1952;Kalundborg 1952; Da. contemporary art, Charlottenborg Palace 1956, 1958; Danish Institute Contemporary Art, Freedom Hall, Sønderborg 1961; Ostseeländer, Rostock 1961-62, 1969; Artists in Odsherred, 1977; Copenhagen 1978; Danish. landscapes, Norwegian Art Museum. 1981; Danish Cultural Institute, The Artists House, Ukraine 1986. Separate Exhibitions: Binger Gallery Copenhagen. 1938; Art Unite., Copenhagen. 1964 (retrosp.); Haagen-Müller Kunsthdl., Copenhagen. 1966; Farumgaard, Farum 1971 (Artist Retrospective); Odsherred painter Retrospective, Odsherreds Museum, 1983; Norwegian Art Museum. 1985; Odsherreds Art Museum. 1993; et al.

Literature:
Pol. 1.4.1957; 03/08/1983; 05/17/1985; Holbæk County Venstrebl. 28/06/1958; Ulf Hoffmann in: Cat. Corner, 1959; News 15/11/1964; Gunnar Jespersen: The abstract, 1967, 107; Berl. Time. 17/01/1971; Inger Hjorth Nielsen: Cat. Corner, 1971-72; January Garff in: Corner Book, 1973; HE Nørregård-Nielsen: Da. Art, I-II, 1983; Marianne Saabye: Odsherred painter VR, 1903-71, Odsherreds Mus., Nyk. S. 1983; Monika C. Blatschek in: VR, 1903-71, Odsherreds Kunstmuseum, Asnæs 1993; et al. less