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Elsa Beskow

(Sweden, 1874-1953)
Estimate
350 000 - 400 000 SEK
31 300 - 35 700 EUR
31 800 - 36 300 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
Covered by droit de suite

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Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

Purchasing info
Elsa Beskow
(Sweden, 1874-1953)

The red bus and the green car. Illustrated children's story by Elsa Beskow

15 sheets. Page 3 signed EB and dated -51. Watercolour, indian ink and pencil. Cover and pp. 3-15 (13 sheets), circa 34 x 26 cm. Title page in indian ink, circa 34 x 24 cm.

More information

"Röda bussen och gröna bilen" (The red bus and the green car) was Elsa Beskow's last illustrated children's story, published by Albert Bonniers Förlag in Stockholm, 1952.