A unique Swedish Grace folding screen, 1930s.
Three-part on castors, gilded, with hand-painted decoration of motifs from the Old Testament, signed E. Luterkort. Height 187.5 cm, width 3 x 65 cm.
Wear and minor damages, worn edges.
Consul & director Herman Schlasberg (1878-1945), Landskrona, commissioned in the late 1930s.
Bukowski Auktioner, Moderna Vårauktionen 1989, lot 931.
Swedish Grace to Modernism: Property from a Swedish Private Collection
Einar Luterkort was a Swedish sculptor, painter, and ceramicist. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1926 to 1929, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1929, at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome in 1930, and at the Academy of Arts in Munich in 1930. He was an artistic collaborator at Upsala-Ekeby from 1929 to 1932 and worked as a teacher in ceramics at Viggbyholm School from 1930 to 1971.
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