12. joulu 2025
The Best of the Best – Highlights from Important Winter Sale
This week, Swedish and international art, furniture, works of arts and jewellery went under the hammer at Bukowskis’ major live auction – Important Winter Sale.
In total, 13 lots exceeding one million were achieved, and the auction demonstrated a continued and exceptionally strong market for works by female artists such as Helene Schjerfbeck, Cecilia Edefalk, Lotte Laserstein and Hilma af Klint, as well as for classical masters including Bruno Liljefors, Anders Zorn and Carl Milles.
One of the sale’s great highlights was the watercolour "The Convalescent" (1945) by the Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck, which sold for a final price of 7 million SEK. The sale coincides with a current solo exhibition of Schjerfbeck at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where her artistry is receiving renewed attention.
The Art Department
The painting "Dad" by the Swedish contemporary artist Cecilia Edefalk exceeded expectations and achieved a final price of nearly 5.5 million SEK, just below her previous auction record at Bukowskis. Hilma af Klint was also represented with the painting Studio Interior, which sold for close to 1.4 million SEK.
Among Swedish classical masters and modernists, high final prices and several lots exceeding million SEK were achieved for works by Bruno Liljefors, Anders Zorn, Carl Milles and Gösta Adrian Nilsson (GAN). GAN’s painting "Gul Figur" fetched a final price of just over 5.2 million SEK, more than double its estimate.
The Department for Furniture and Works of Art
Amidst the ongoing Nobel festivities, attention was drawn to a unique and historically significant object of royal provenance when Queen Dowager Hedvig Eleonora’s writing desk from Tre Kronor Palace came up for sale. The desk, crafted by Hindrich van Hachten, is unique in two respects: it is the oldest Swedish-made piece of furniture that can be definitively attributed to a named cabinetmaker – and one of only two known pieces that stood in Tre Kronor Palace prior to the devastating fire of 1697. This exceptional desk was sold, in this fittingly ceremonial context, for a final price of 575,000 SEK.
Other highlights within furniture and works of art included an Empire chandelier, a Louis XIV-style mirror, a sixteenth-century medallion Ushak carpet, as well as a first-rate silver department, which also featured a magnificent donation to medical research. The sale also presented the legendary antiques dealer Lars Broberg’s collection of high-quality antiques and works of arts.
Asian Sale
On the final day of the auction, the focus shifted to the Asian art department, where a cloisonné vase from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) exceeded 1 million SEK. After lively bidding, the vase was hammered down at just under 1.4 million SEK. Additional highlights included a lacquer box with smaller inset boxes in tianqi lacquer, a bowl dish and a brush pot from the Qing dynasty, and a dish decorated with five-clawed dragons chasing the flaming pearl among the clouds.
Selected highlights
765A
Helene Schjerfbeck
"The Convalescent".
Vasarahinta
5 600 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
7 000 000 - 9 000 000 SEK
718
Carl Fredrik Hill
"Jordkällare med figur, Luc-sur-Mer".
Vasarahinta
1 500 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
1 500 000 - 2 000 000 SEK
681A
Carl Milles
"Solglitter" / "Najad på delfin" (Sunglitter / Naiad and dolphin).
Vasarahinta
1 150 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
1 400 000 - 1 800 000 SEK
705A
Georg Kolbe
Ruf der Erde (Call from earth).
Vasarahinta
960 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
1 200 000 - 1 500 000 SEK
556A
Cartier a pair of earrings platinum set with drop-shaped and round brilliant-cut diamonds.
Vasarahinta
700 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
725 000 - 750 000 SEK
811
Gösta Adrian-Nilsson
"Vit cirkel Horisontell".
Vasarahinta
1 400 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
600 000 - 800 000 SEK
706
Edvard Munch
"Summer night / Inger on the Beach".
Vasarahinta
1 250 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
500 000 - 600 000 SEK
25
A Swedish Baroque Royal writing desk,
by Hindrich von Hachten Ordered for the queen Hedvig Eleonora (1636-1715) 1683.
Vasarahinta
460 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
500 000 - 700 000 SEK
699
Marie Martha Krøyer
"Italienska med barn" (Modersglädje).
Vasarahinta
1 000 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
400 000 - 500 000 SEK
682
Bruno Liljefors
Hamilton hounds at the fox hunt.
Vasarahinta
520 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
400 000 - 500 000 SEK
433
A variant of a 'Medallion' Ushak carpet fragment,
West Anatolia, c. 260 x 285, late 16th century.
Vasarahinta
200 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
200 000 - 300 000 SEK
135
An ormolu and cut glass sixteen-branch Empire chandelier,
Paris, early 19th century.
Vasarahinta
180 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
200 000 - 250 000 SEK
1140
A blue and white 'sanduo' lobed bowl,
Qing dynasty, Yongzheng mark and of the period (1723-35).
Vasarahinta
135 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
150 000 - 200 000 SEK
1013
A fine carved lacquer box and cover with tianqi lacquer inset boxes and covers,
Qing dynasty, Qianlong (1736-95).
Vasarahinta
390 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
150 000 - 200 000 SEK
636
A platinum necklace set with navette-,
pear- and round-brilliant-cut diamonds.
Vasarahinta
185 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
150 000 - 175 000 SEK
631
A bracelet in platinum set with baguette and brilliant-cut diamonds,
Art Déco.
Vasarahinta
100 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
125 000 - 150 000 SEK
1341
A rare large blue and white 'five clawed dragon' dish,
Qing dynasty with Kangxi mark and of the preriod (1662-1722).
Vasarahinta
320 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
120 000 - 150 000 SEK
250
A Baltic 17th century parcel-gilt silver tankard,
mark of Johan Strengman, (active 1686, 1690-1701) probably 1691, Nyen.
Vasarahinta
230 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
100 000 - 150 000 SEK
102
A presumably Dutch Louis XIV carved giltwood frame with mirror glass,
in the style of Jean Le Pautre, late 17th century.
Vasarahinta
140 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
100 000 - 125 000 SEK
1040
A blue and white ’Western Chamber’ brush pot,
Bitong, Qing dynasty, early Kangxi (1662-1722).
Vasarahinta
480 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
80 000 - 120 000 SEK
589
An 18K gold and coral Cartier ring set with round brilliant-cut diamonds.
Vasarahinta
125 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
80 000 - 100 000 SEK
1017
A group of five coral-red-ground famille-rose 'Imperial wedding' wares,
Qing dynasty, Tongzhi period.
Vasarahinta
270 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
50 000 - 75 000 SEK
1259
A cloisonne enamel meiping vase,
Ming dynasty 1368-1644).
Vasarahinta
1 100 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
40 000 - 60 000 SEK
1070
A large blue and white 'yenyen' vase,
China, 20th century.
Vasarahinta
220 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
15 000 - 20 000 SEK
365
An European 17th century silver and tortoiseshell box.
Vasarahinta
105 000 SEK
Lähtöhinta
6 000 - 8 000 SEK
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