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Vicke Lindstrand

(Sweden, 1904-1983)
Estimate
60 000 - 80 000 SEK
5 330 - 7 110 EUR
5 510 - 7 340 USD
Hammer price
55 000 SEK
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Vicke Lindstrand
(Sweden, 1904-1983)

"Christ calms the storm" a glass vase, Orrefors, Sweden 1935, model 1385, engraved by Arthur Diessner.

Mould blown, engraved and cut decoration, signed ORREFORS. LINDSTRAND. 1384. 35. A.D. Height 33,3 cm, diameter 25,5 cm.

Literature

Lars Thor, "Legend i Glas - En bok om Vicke Lindstrand", Liber, Borås 1982, the model is mentioned pp 35,38.

Designer

Vicke (Viktor) Lindstrand, glass artist, illustrator, textile artist and ceramic designer. He worked at Orrefors in 1928-41, where he designed glass in classic forms with engraved decor, often stylized figurative motifs. At the Stockholm exhibition in 1930, Orrefors exhibited his painted glass pieces. During the 1930s, the engraved and optic-blown glass with the "Pearl fisher" and "Shark hunter" came with its muscular bare figures. In front of the World Exhibition in Paris 1937, one starts working with the thick-walled glass, and he renewed the "graal" glass and together with Edvin Öhrström he introduced the "ariel" glass. Vicke Lindstrand was artistic director at Upsala-Ekeby 1942-50. After that he came to Kosta as an artistic director 1950-73, where he renewed the glass design and experimented with glass sculptures.

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