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Barbro Nilsson

(Sweden, 1899-1983)
Estimate
100 000 - 150 000 SEK
8 900 - 13 300 EUR
9 070 - 13 600 USD
Hammer price
90 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Finland: Kuvasto

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Barbro Nilsson
(Sweden, 1899-1983)

A CARPET, "Finspong, lättbrun" ("Kringelikroka"), flat weave, ca 315,5 x 304 cm, signed AB MMF BN

(AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson). Designed in 1954. Woven by Gulli Jönsson och Tuttan Håkansson. Made without fringes.

Some wear, stains, The ends have later edges ("the Oriental braids") and minor repairs made at Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB in 2017.

Provenance

Interior architect Sven Staaf, Helsingborg.

Literature

Compare with Mattor och vävnader - Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson, Marianne Richter, Ann-Mari Forsberg, Stockholm 1957, plate page 19; Lundgren, Tyra: Märta Måås-Fjetterström och väv-verkstaden i Båstad, Stockholm 1968, text page 38.

More information

In 1955 a 70 square meter large "Kringelikroka" was delivered to Finspong castle, Östergötland, Sweden.