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Stefan Johansson

(Sweden, 1876-1955)
Estimate
400 000 - 500 000 SEK
36 500 - 45 700 EUR
37 400 - 46 700 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
Covered by droit de suite

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Purchasing info
Stefan Johansson
(Sweden, 1876-1955)

"Skuggor i sängvrån" ("Sleep corner")

Signed Stefan and dated -44. Tempera on canvas 62.5 x 47.5 cm.

Provenance

Lacy Gallery, London; private collection, Europe; Adam Williams Fine Art, New York/Åmells konsthandel, Stockholm.

Literature

Folke Holmér, "En bok om Stefan Johansson", 1958, see black and white photographs of the artist's sleep corner, p. 55 and watercolours "Sleep Corner I" (1939) and "Yellow lamp" (1945) reproduced in B/W p. 108 and 115; Stefan Hammenbeck, "Stefan Johansson. Bara tiden och livet förslog", 2007, four other versions of "Sleep Corner", dated 1939, 1942, 1945 and ca. 1945, reproduced in B/W and colour respectively on p. 12-15 where the author also discussed the motif in captions.

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