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Barbro Nilsson

(Sweden, 1899-1983)
Estimate
40 000 - 60 000 SEK
3 530 - 5 300 EUR
3 680 - 5 530 USD
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Barbro Nilsson
(Sweden, 1899-1983)

A TAPESTRY, "Ångan - Ångkraften", a tapestry variant, ca 240,5 x 112 cm, signed AB MMF BN

(AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson). A sewn on label at the back: Vävd på Barbro Nilssons verkstad Smedjebo i Lerberget av Marin Hemmingson. Designed in 1966. In all the seven designs ordered by Sydsvenska Kraft AB there is the mythological animal "Bäckahästen" as a symbol for the natural forces. Several patterns have metal threads. (Unique).

Slightly faded and dirty, insignificantly worn, minor stains and damages.

Provenance

Sydsvenska Kraft AB, now Eon, Malmö, Sweden.

Literature

Lundgren, Tyra: Märta Måås-Fjetterström och väv-verkstaden i Båstad, Stockholm 1968, plate No. 60 (one of the seven tapestries designed for Sydsvenska Kraft AB in Malmö); Möller, Viggo Sten: En bok om Barbro Nilsson, Stockholm/Barcelona 1977, text and colour plates pages 38-41, 84-85; Hansson, Ewa och Pettersson, Gert-Ove: Konsten i Sydkraftkoncernen, Malmö, colour plates 30-30g.

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