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Lennart Rodhe

(Sweden, 1916-2005)
Estimate
300 000 - 350 000 SEK
29 100 - 33 900 EUR
33 300 - 38 800 USD
Hammer price
390 000 SEK
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Lennart Rodhe
(Sweden, 1916-2005)

"Kontraster I" (Contrasts I)

Signed with monogram. Executed in 1954. Tempera on panel 66 x 93 cm.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist through Galerie Bel' Art, Stockholm.
Bukowski's auction, "Moderna + Contemporary & Design", auction 553, 27 October 2009, cat no 150.

Exhibitions

Riksutställningar för bildande konst, "Tre målare", exhibition no 137.
Moderna Museet, "Lennart Rodhe", 16 april-5 juni 1988.
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, "Lennart Rodhe", 15 juni-4 september 1988, cat no 42.
Galerie Bel'Art, Stockholm, "Lennart Rodhe - målningar 1947 - 1958", 2001, illustrated as cat No 11 in the exhibition catalogue.

Literature

Thomas Millroth, SAK, edition 98, "Lennart Rodhe", jämför "Kontraster II", reproduced page 129.