‘Seated Nude’ by Robert Leepin, Paris, Salon D’Automne, Royal Danish Academy, Expressionist Oil

Signed lower right, ‘Rob Leepin’ for Robert Leepin (Danish, 1884-1967) and painted circa 1925.

Robert Leepin first studied under Lauritz Tuxen and Viggo Johansen at Denmark’s Royal Academy of Art (1909-1914). Beginning in 1921, Leepin took study trips abroad including to Moscow (1921), France (1923-26), Italy (1924, 1930), Algiers (1927-28) and Norway (1950). Leepin’s work testifies to the influence of the early years of Danish Modernism and the artist’s experience of working beside the artists of the first generation of the School of Paris. Over the course of a long and successful career, Leepin exhibited widely, including in Paris at the Salon d’Automne (1924), at Malmo (1914) and, regularly, at the Charlottenborg Museum from 1930. Robert Leepin’s work can be found in numerous private and public collections including the permanent collections of the state museums of Denmark.

Reference:
Weilbach, Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, the Castle and Cultural Agency, Copenhagen; et al.