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Elsa Beskow

(Sweden, 1874-1953)
Estimate
600 000 - 700 000 SEK
53 000 - 61 800 EUR
54 600 - 63 800 USD
Hammer price
500 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Purchasing info
Elsa Beskow
(Sweden, 1874-1953)

"HATT-STUGAN. Bilderbok av Elsa Beskow"

Cover and in total another 24 original illustrations with handwritten text executed on 17 sheets. 3 sheets signed EB with pencil. Executed in 1930. Watercolour, pen and indian ink and pencil. Cover ca 17.5 x 24.5 cm. The other sheets ca 17.5 x 25 cm (7), 17 x 25 cm (6), 17.5 x 24.5 (1), 17.5 x 24 (1), and 16 x 25 cm (1).

Provenance

The artist's family.

Exhibitions

Nationalmuseum (National Gallery of Art), Stockholm, "Elsa Beskow. Vår barndoms bildskatt", 14 March - 26 May 2002, no. 175-191.

Literature

Barbro Schaffer, 'Från skog till hav - naturgestaltningen hos Elsa Beskow', article in "Elsa Beskow. Vår barndoms bildskatt", exhibition catalogue, Nationalmuseum (National Gallery of Art), Stockholm, Sweden, 2002, mentioned pp. 162-163 and partly illustrated in colour p. 162.

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