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Julius Paulsen, born in Odense in 1860 and who died in Copenhagen in 1940, was a Danish painter trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He served there as a professor from 1908 to 1920. His work encompasses portraits, nudes, interiors and landscapes, with sustained attention to lighting and relationships between tones.
The study of Rembrandt and French painting accompanied his development. Large figure compositions of the 1880s stand alongside an extensive output of portraits. In the Bedroom, an oil on canvas of 1900 now at the Musée d’Orsay, was purchased from him for the Luxembourg museum in 1901. Portrait of His Daughter Inger, painted in 1922 and held by Oslo’s Nasjonalmuseet, records a family subject within this continuing activity as a portraitist.
This profile brings together identity references for Julius Paulsen and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Femme à la lecture
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2021-12-09
Published result : 550 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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