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Barbro Nilsson

(Sweden, 1899-1983)
Estimate
75 000 - 100 000 SEK
6 870 - 9 170 EUR
6 980 - 9 300 USD
Hammer price
140 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

By law, the buyer will pay an artist fee for this work of art. This fee is 5% of the hammer price, or less. For more information about this law:

Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

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Barbro Nilsson
(Sweden, 1899-1983)

a carpet, "Snäckorna", flat weave, ca 312-313,5 x 200-204,5 cm, signed AB MMF BN

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

Some partly hard wear, stains. The ends have repairs (even the signature BN) and have later flax edge and fringes.

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.