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CARL HENRIK WREDE (1890-1924): YOUNG WOMAN STRETCHING a patinated bronz

CARL HENRIK WREDE (1890-1924): YOUNG WOMAN STRETCHING a patinated bronze figure stretching up from the hips, probably 1920s, signed in the bronze 21cm long The Finnish sculptor Carl Henrik Wrede af Elimä attended the Finnish Art Society's drawing school in 1911-12 and then studied in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière 1912-1913 (coming under the influence of Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle) and in Rome 1919-1920. Most of his production consisted of portrait busts, including one of Pope Benedict XV (1920, the bronze original apparently in the Vatican collections) until his early death from meningitis. A member of the Swedish/Finnish noble Wrede family, a collection of sixty of his pieces were donated by the family to be displayed at a former family seat, Anjala Manor, from 1972 up to the museum's closure in 2014.