Tyra Lundgren
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a wall sculpture 'Yellow fish', executed in her own workshop, Sweden, probably 1950s.
Two fish in high relief, mounted to a white painted wooden plate, incised seal mark, 37 x 50 cm, depth ca 11 cm.
Damage to rim. chips.
Provenance
Swedbank Collection, Kalmar, Sweden.
Nr 4, part of 'Fågelvägen' (as the crow flies), a wall decoration of totally 17 reliefs placed on a 16 meter long wall in Sparbanken's (Swedbank's) new house, Kalmar, inaugurated in 1970.
More information
Tyra Lundgren about this sculpture, No. 4. "Yellow Fish": "The yellow fish were born, as far as I remember, from the pen's play on sketch pads sometime when I searched for shapes of fish in all variations to find a movement and a closed profile line, which might seem worth trying. The expressive fish bodies and their ugly heads have always amused me since I bought my first lake as a model from a female fisherman in Helsinki in 1936 and made my first fish sculpture. The black and yellow drawing is probably a reminder of the brightly coloured South Sea fish, which I have sometimes seen flashing around in San Francisco aquariums. They must have been created in the mid-1950s. "