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Eric Grate(Sweden, 1896-1983)
Eric Grate, watercolor on paper, signed and dated 1923
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Eric Grate, watercolor on paper, signed and dated 1923

"Le Pavillon de Porcelaine - Porslinspaviljongen". 41 x 27,5 cm.

Not examined out of frame. Minor foxing

The works can be seen at Bukowskis, Berzelii Park 1, 15 - 18 September, Weekdays 11 am – 5 pm, Saturday - Saturday 11 am – 4 pm.

Collect your purchase Bukowskis Västberga allé 3, from 29 September

Provenance

Professor Paul Hedqvist, Stockholm.
Stockholms Auktionsverk ,Moderna, 21 October 2014, cat no 527.

Exhibitions

Stockholmsutställningen 1930, katalognr 35 som Composition V
Eric Grate, Réunion de Musées Nationaux, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 1963, utanför katalog
Eric Grate, Réunion de Musées Nationaux, Musée d'Ixelles, Bryssel 1963, utanför katalog
Eric Grate, Réunion de Musées Nationaux, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Antwerpen 1963, utanför katalog

Literature

Pontus Grate & Ragnar von Holten: Eric Grate, SAK publikation 1978, avbildad sidan 19
Teddy Brunius och Ulf Thomas Moberg: Om och Av Otto G. Carlsund, Stockholm 1989, se katalogfaksimil sidan 84

More information

Eric Grate var inte bara skulptör, utan målade också under sin tidiga karriär. Innan han slog sig ned i Paris 1924 företog sig Grate resor i Tyskland där han under vistelse i München påverkades mycket starkt av schweizaren Paul Klees verk. Det aktuella verket, akvarellen ”Porslinspaviljongen” är ett av de främsta exemplen på hur inverkan av Klee förlöser Grates skapande till något helt nytt

"Sviten akvareller utgör ändå Eric Grates mest helgjutna och personliga insats från München-epoken. Många av dem tillkom i ett slags febertillstånd, under sömnlösa nätter. I dem alla spänner han över papperets ljusbruna yta ett slags spindelnät av geometriska linjer, som än löper iväg fritt och mynnar ut i en ornamental krusidull, än förtätas till en labyrint av former, än i raska drag anger ett träd, ett hus, en fisk, en fågel eller en människofigur... Mot den släta fonden får scenen avteckna sig i luftigt sönderbruten silhuett, tyngdlöst svävande som ett drömmens luftskepp som sakta driver för vinden - kanske med fladdrande vimplar och en liten gestalt som håller sig fast i en arm längst ned, för att inte falla av." Pontus Grate ur boken Eric Grate från 1978

More about Eric Grate

Eric Grates idiosyncratic world of images always invites exploration and wandering within the imagination. While he respects the the earths natural forms, he sometimes "plays with god", manipulating and playing with nature to create new surprising objects which we recognise but simultaneously dont recall. He borrows fragments from nature and uses his endless imagination to create art in his unique way. His visual language emualtes an aura of abstract surrealism derived from "object trouvés". Grate was inspired by natures radiance and its different forms. Stones, roots, insects, bones, all were transformed into sculptures, particularly the insect world was a source of great inspiration for Grates. During the 1960s, beach, hull, and bones were particularly the starting points for his sculptures. He created numerous official artworks.

Grate began his academic trips after finishing his studies at Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1979-20, where he travelled to Italy and Greece, filling his sketchbooks with studies of insects, plants, unique architecture, sculpture, and ceramics. He spent a longer period between 1924 and 1933 in Paris, a formative period where he was one of the few Swedish artists who was associated with the avante garde; we got in contact with none other than the surrealists Jean Arp, Paul Eluard, and Tristan Tzara. Grate is seen by many as one of Sweden's most influential sculptors during the 1900s.

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Finland: Kuvasto

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