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Axel Olson

(Sweden, 1899-1986)
Estimate
15 000 - 20 000 SEK
1 380 - 1 840 EUR
1 410 - 1 880 USD
Hammer price
12 500 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

By law, the buyer will pay an artist fee for this work of art. This fee is 5% of the hammer price, or less. For more information about this law:

Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

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Axel Olson
(Sweden, 1899-1986)

"Spader kung" (King of spades)

Signed Axel Olson. Executed circa 1930. Indian ink, watercolour and pencil on paper 10 x 7.5 cm.

Provenance

Originally in the collections of Egon Östlund, Halmstad.
Subsequently inherited within the family to the present owner.

Literature

Viveca Bosson, Folke Holmér, Erik Lindegren and Egon Östlund, "Halmstadgruppen", 1970, compare with the oil painting "Spader kung", illustrated page 127.

More information

Preparatory work for the 1930 executed oil painting of the same title.