Eesti kunsti oksjonid
Hilda Mikkelsaar “Õunapuude õitsemise aegu”
Sügisoksjon 2025
Oil on masonite. 1950s.
Signature: H. Mikkelsaar
| Measurements | 61 x 91,5 cm |
|---|---|
| Starting price | 2 800 € |
| Number of bids | 3 |
| Hammer price | 3 000 € |
Hilda Mikkelsaar (1906-1969) studied at Pallas under Nikolai Triik and worked as an art teacher in Tallinn after graduating. Mikkelsaar also left Estonia during the Great Escape of 1944 and lived in Canada from 1949 onwards. Her work only returned to her homeland during the new Republic and its most important milestone was an exhibition at the Adamson-Eric Museum in 1996, where her works and those of her daughter, the well-known graphic artist Ruth Tulving, were introduced.
The artist’s style is characterized by an impressionist tradition, which is also carried by this view of Estonia, about which Mauri Gross writes: “Hilda Mikkelsaar’s painting is like an ode to a secure life or a longing for it – as an exiled artist, this theme may have been encoded in the subconscious. The style of painting is characteristically warm and glowing brown for the Palladians, which is painted quickly and spontaneously but at the same time thoughtfully generalized. It is fascinating that the three groups of figures have the compositional effect of a life arc.”
Text: Mai Levin, Mauri Gross