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Barbro Nilsson

(Sweden, 1899-1983)
Estimate
40 000 - 45 000 SEK
3 580 - 4 030 EUR
3 590 - 4 040 USD
Hammer price
70 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

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Barbro Nilsson
(Sweden, 1899-1983)

A CARPET, "Tånga blå, variant", flat weave, ca 259 x 206,5 cm, signed AB MMF BN

(AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson).
Designed in 1955. This carpet was especially made with the colours red, pink and yellow in some of the details. (Unique).

Some partly a little harder wear, dirty, stains. The sides have fold wear, one side has damages, one end is damaged and has a discoloured area. Some of the fringes are damaged, many are missing.

Literature

Compare with Möller, Viggo Sten: En bok om Barbro Nilsson, Stockholm/Barcelona 1977, colour plate page 69; Stensman, Mailis: Ännu Mera Mattor från Märta Måås-Fjetterströms ateljé i Båstad 1919-1999, Uddevalla 1999, colour plate page 11; Liljevalchs konsthalls katalog: Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Märta flyger igen, 90 år med Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Värnamo 2009, colour plate page 154-155.

More information

"Tånga" was designed for the H55 (the Helsingborg exhibition in 1955).