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Oiva Toikka

(Finland, 1931-2019)
Estimate
30 000 - 40 000 SEK
2 670 - 3 560 EUR
2 750 - 3 670 USD
Hammer price
46 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Camilla Behrer
Stockholm
Camilla Behrer
Head of Design/ Specialist Modern & Contemporary Decorative Art & Design
+46 (0)708 92 19 77
Oiva Toikka
(Finland, 1931-2019)

'Minotaur', a cast glass sculpture, Nuutajärvi Notsjö, Finland 1995.

Joined pieces in various colours and marbled glass, height 66.8 cm.

Cracks, possibly from manufacture, one corner polished.

Provenance

Sivert Oldenvi Collection.

Literature

Jack Dawson, 'Oiva Toikka Glass and Design', Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, Finland 2007, compare the sculpture ill. p. 149.

More information

Oiva Toikka (1931-2019)
En mycket mångsidig formgivare vars verk tycks präglas av både fantasi och humor. Initialt klappade Oiva Toikkas hjärta starkast för att arbeta i keramik.
År 1956 var han en del av en grupp som besökte Nuutajärvi/Notsjö och Kaj Franck och Sara Hopea och här blev Toikka först introducerad till glaset som medium.
Oivas Toikkas verk är ofta skulpturala till formen, utförda i starka färger, sprudlande av Toikkas kreativa sinnelag. Toikka var ständigt experimenterande och utvecklande av olika tekniker tillsammans med de aktuella hantverkarna.

Designer

Oiva Toikka (1931-2019) is one of the greatest Finnish ceramic and glass artists of the 20th century. Toikka, who began his artistic career as a ceramicist, was from 1963 the artistic director of Notsjö Glasbruk. However, Toikka is today mainly associated with Iittala, not least for the well-known production of "glass birds". The successes have also been great in other artistic areas, for example Toikka has been hired as a costume designer for several theater and opera productions, of which productions at the Finnish National Opera should be mentioned.

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