Arvid Aae (Swedish/Danish 1877-1913)
Portrait of a Little Girl Sewing
oil on canvas, signed lower right "Arvid Aae" exhibited at the Royal Danish Academy at Charlottenborg 1912
Size: 27 ½ h x 20 ¾ w (with frame: 32 h x 25 ¼ w in)
Provenance: Estate of Joseph and Rosalie Segal, Vancouver Canada
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Arvid Aae was born in Jonhannishus, Sweden but moved to Denmark as a young boy where became a citizen in 1903. He was educated as a painter and draughtsman at Gustaf Vermehren’s Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark where he graduated in 1895, and at the Danish Royal Academy where he graduated in 1901. In 1905 he married fellow artist Olga Herriet Rasmussen and the same year painted an altarpiece for the Church in Brande. He travelled through Paris and Italy on a scholarship from the Academy in 1905-6 where he painted landscapes en plein air, including several from Tuscany. His etching of a mother with child was exhibited in Paris in 1906. He is known for his landscapes, portraits and genre paintings, many of children. Aae exhibited at Charlottenborg between 1910 and 1914. He is represented in Kolding Museum as well as private collections. Arvid Aae died in 1913 at the young age of 36 on Jutland in Denmark.
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