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Barbro Nilsson

(Sweden, 1899-1983)
Estimate
30 000 - 40 000 SEK
2 910 - 3 880 EUR
3 330 - 4 440 USD
Hammer price
115 000 SEK
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Barbro Nilsson
(Sweden, 1899-1983)

CARPET. "Snäckorna". Tapestry weave. 274 x 185-188,5 cm. Signed AB MMF BN

(AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson). Designed in 1943.

Some wear, slightly dirty, minor stains. Later edges and fringes, several fringes are missing.

Literature

Compare with Lundgren, Tyra: Märta Måås-Fjetterström och väv-verkstaden i Båstad, Stockholm 1968, plate 48; af Klercker, Susanne: Antikt - Bukowskis experter berättar, Västerås/Spanien 2006, colour plate page 182; Liljevalchs konsthalls katalog: Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Märta flyger igen, 90 år med Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Värnamo 2009, colour plate page 145.

More information

One "Snäckorna" exists in the collection of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.