Liss Eriksson, Girl with a Mirror.

Girl with a Mirror

Signed with monogram and numbered 2/3. Conceived in 1960. Foundry mark H. Bergman. Patinated bronze, height 40 cm.

Literature

Thomas Millroth, “Liss – Bildhuggare”, 1994, cf. illustration p. 97 and mentioned p. 101.

More information

The composition is found in the large sculpture group “Huset”, commissioned in 1955 for the Kobjer suburban district of Lund. “The depictions of children are prominent: Liss and Britta’s own children, Ann and Mirjam, sitting and eating, or little Mårten. But also ‘Big Ann’ – the model was a girl from the neighbourhood – the teenager sitting on the balcony, looking at herself in the mirror. In her thoughts, she is on her way away from both the House and its inhabitants, with the entire room outside before her” (p. 101).

More about Liss Eriksson

Liss Eriksson was born in Stockholm and was the youngest child of the sculptor Christian Eriksson and Ebba Dahlgren. He grew up in his father's studio on Maria Prästgårdsgatan in Södermalm, Stockholm. He initially studied to become an architect at Norrköpings Technical High School in 1938, but quickly aborted his schooling to study at the Royal Institute of Art under the tutorship of Nils Sjögren and Eric Grate.

In the year 1947, Eriksson participated alongside Arne Jones in the Exhibition Young Art at Färg och Form, which sparked interest with the artist group 1947 års män. After this Eriksson travelled to Paris with his wife and artist Britta Reich-Eriksson (born 1918) and studied under Jean Osouf and Henri Laurens, staying in the city until 1951, when he later moved back to Stockholm and took over his father's studio.

Liss Eriksson was early on influenced by the French school, Aristide Maillol and Henri Laurens, but even by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti.

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