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Axel Salto

(Denmark, 1889-1961)
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Axel Salto, a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.
Estimate
35 000 - 40 000 SEK
3 090 - 3 530 EUR
3 220 - 3 680 USD
Hammer price
85 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

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Stockholm
Camilla Behrer
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+46 (0)708 92 19 77
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Axel Salto
(Denmark, 1889-1961)

a 'budding style' stoneware vase, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark mid 20th century.

Spotted beige 'Gundestrup' glaze, incised SALTO, the three waves and 250 in underglaze blue, height 18.5 cm.

Provenance

Georg Svensson (1904-1998), art historian, editor, critic and author. Thence by descent.

Designer

Axel Salto was born in Copenhagen and studied at the Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi between 1909-1914. After his studies, he traveled to Paris and met artists like Matisse and Picasso.

Meeting Picasso changed Salto's view of art, and he founded the influential art journal Klingen and formed the progressive and modern artist collective De Fire. In 1925, Salto participated in the Paris World Fair. During the 1920s, his focus shifted from painting to ceramics, and he collaborated with, among others, Carl Halier and Saxbo Stentøj. After some years, he came to Royal Copenhagen, where he designed stoneware from 1933 until the 1950s. Axel Salto is today considered one of the most important Danish designers in ceramic art.

Salto experimented with organic sculptural forms and glazes inspired by nature. The items are often categorized into three different styles; "budding", "sprouting" and "grooving". In recent years, the demand for Axel Salto's ceramics has increased from collectors worldwide.

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