"Dansande fetisch".
Signed Eric Grate, dated L.III (1953). Foundry marked Herman Bergman. Patinated bronze. Height 90 cm. Height including base 135 cm. Width approximately 63 cm, depth approximately 21 cm.
The sculpture was previously located at Restaurant Stadskällaren in Östersund and Sara Hotel Strand in Sundsvall. Bukowski Auctions, Modern Art + Design 604, 21 November 2017, cat. no. 221. Acquired at the above auction.
Pontus Grate and Ragnar von Holten, "Eric Grate", SAKs Allmänna publikation LXXXVII, illustrated as a drawing and mentioned p. 52, mentioned p. 106 and illustrated fullpage p. 107.
Eric Grate had early on, in the late 1920s, joined the Paris surrealist avant-garde. After returning to Sweden in 1933, Grate briefly returned to a more figurative visual language, but in the mid-1940s, he resumed creating works with visionary and surrealistic elements. In the early 1950s, he created some of his finest sculptures.