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Modern Autumn Sale, Stockholm 569 Stockholm298301
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Christian Berg

(Sweden, 1893-1976)
Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).
Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).
Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).
Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).
Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).
Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).
Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).
Christian Berg, "Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV).
Estimate
150 000 - 175 000 SEK
13 100 - 15 300 EUR
13 900 - 16 200 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
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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Christian Berg
(Sweden, 1893-1976)

"Torpedfigur IV" (Figure IV)

Signed C.B. and numbered Ex.5. The motif conceived in 1959 in edition of 5. Bronze, gold patina. Height 34 cm (including stone base 44 cm).

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Literature

Torvald Berg, "Christian", 1991, No 19, compare p. 186.

Designer

Christian Berg was a Swedish sculptor. He commenced his career as a naturalistic animal painter and he up until 1926 retained his artistry solely to painting. He encountered post-cubism whilst in Paris, which quickly became his artistic language. The road to sculpting he found one day when, with the help of clay, solved a problem with the lines of a drawn torso. Berg’s first sculpture, Torso 1926, became the starting point to his most intensive and active period of 1926-30. He created a collection of post-cubist sculptures and many torsos in various stages of development. He primarily worked with clearly defined concave and convex forms, allowing light to play on alternating glossy and matte surfaces. With the exception of his numerous stylised portrait sculptures ecclesiastical decorations, Berg remained loyal to abstract sculptures during the entirety of his artistic career.

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