Sculpture Sales

During Carl Milles’ lifetime, no sculptures were numbered. After his death, the Millesgården Foundation’s board decided to cast new numbered editions of selected works, limited to editions of 6 or 12. Millesgården still holds the rights to cast and sell several of Milles’ sculptures in various formats.



For further information, please contact:

Mikael Karlsson, Senior Advisor

Mobile: +46 (0)708 72 47 72

mikael.karlsson@millesgarden.se



Below are a few examples with detailed information. Please contact us for more available works.

Sketch for a proposed monument outside the United Nations Headquarters, New York.



In the late 1940s, Carl Milles created a sketch of a sculpture featuring God the Father standing on a rainbow, placing stars in the sky—or perhaps removing them? At the base of the rainbow, a small angel tosses the stars up to God, one by one.



Originally envisioned as a fountain to be placed in front of the UN building in New York, the sculpture was never realized in that location. In 1995, one of Milles' former students, Marshall Fredericks, scaled up the design and completed the full-size fountain at Nacka Strand, just outside Stockholm. There, the arching water jets help form the illusion of a semicircular rainbow. At the very top of the arc stands God the Father.

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Located in a sunken reflecting pool on the Upper Terrace of Millesgården, the Susanna Fountain is a key work by Carl Milles. The sculpture is carved from a single block of black granite in a heavy, smooth-surfaced style typical of Milles’ work at the time. The stone originates from Glimåkra in southern Sweden. The fountain basin was added in the 1940s. Many of Carl Milles’ sculptures are incorporated into fountains or pools, often drawing inspiration from biblical stories, astrology, or classical mythology.

A small man stands within a large hand. He gazes upward, his fingers stretched wide and body tensed. Balancing precariously on the thumb and forefinger of the enormous hand, the act appears challenging—yet the man’s concentration is directed elsewhere. He seems to be receiving a message from above or engaged in a celestial conversation.



Carl Milles worked on The Hand of God between 1949 and 1953. It was one of three major commissions completed in the 1950s before his death in 1955. Originally created for the city of Eskilstuna, Sweden, the sculpture can now be found in several cities around the world, including Tokyo, Melbourne, and Beijing.