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Anders Bruno Liljefors

(Sweden, 1923-1970)
Estimate
6 000 - 8 000 SEK
562 - 749 EUR
626 - 834 USD
Hammer price
9 000 SEK
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Anders Bruno Liljefors
(Sweden, 1923-1970)

two stoneware vases, Gustavsberg studio, Sweden ca 1949-50.

Sgrafitto decoration, one with figures and one with ovals, each signed. Height 10 cm and 10,5 cm.
Book enclosed:
Gösta Arvidsson, "Keramikens revoltionär Anders Bruno Liljefors", Carlsson förlag, 2011.

One with scratches.

Saleroom notice

Den gula med glasyrsprickor/ the yellow with glaze cracks.

Designer

Ceramicist and painter Anders Bruno Liljefors studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1945 to 1947. He worked at Gustavsberg's Studio during the periods 1947-53 and 1955-57, as well as at his own studios in Roslagen and in Blekinge. Liljefors started at the Gustavsberg factory as a handyman, but his talent was quickly noticed by Wilhelm Kåge, who, after just a few weeks, provided Liljefors with his own studio in the Studio where he primarily worked with stoneware. Soon, Liljefors had his own turner, Dan Malmborg, and together they developed the rustic grey-green stoneware that became his breakthrough. His first solo exhibition was at Nordiska Kompaniet in Stockholm in 1952. It was a success, with most pieces sold. In 1955, he conducted the first experimental trials with sand casting, which attracted significant media attention when presented in the factory's shop on Birger Jarlsgatan in Stockholm. Writers were surprised, puzzled, delighted, and sceptical; terms like "Ceramic Neo-Brutalism" were coined, some saw new possibilities within architecture, while others were less impressed by the collection. These primitive and bold forms were nonetheless groundbreaking, and the Swedish stoneware tradition was thereby energised to develop in new directions. In 1961, Liljefors received the first Kåge Scholarship for his "strongly personal and refreshingly innovative style". During the 1960s, he carried out around 15 public decorations, ranging from minor decorations to entire walls.

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