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Barbro Nilsson

(Sweden, 1899-1983)
Estimate
50 000 - 80 000 SEK
4 460 - 7 130 EUR
4 550 - 7 280 USD
Hammer price
60 000 SEK
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Barbro Nilsson
(Sweden, 1899-1983)

A CARPET, "Snäckorna", flat weave, ca 277,5 x 187 cm, signed AB MMF BN

(AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson). Designed in 1943.

Some wear, dirty, large stains. The ends have minor damages, all fringes are missing.

Literature

Compare with Lundgren, Tyra: Märta Måås-Fjetterström och väv-verkstaden i Båstad, Stockholm 1968, plate 48; af Klercker, Susanne: Antikt - Bukowskis experter berättar, Västerås/Spanien 2006, colour plate page 182; Liljevalchs konsthalls katalog: Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Märta flyger igen, 90 år med Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Värnamo 2009, colour plate page 145.

More information

One "Snäckorna" exists in the collection of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.