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Bertil Vallien

(Sweden, Born 1938)
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Bertil Vallien, a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.
Estimate
30 000 - 40 000 SEK
2 650 - 3 530 EUR
2 730 - 3 640 USD
Hammer price
24 000 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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Camilla Behrer
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Bertil Vallien
(Sweden, Born 1938)

a unique sand casted blue glass 'Head' sculpture on a hewn and polished limestone plinth, Kosta Boda, Sweden.

Signed KOSTA BODA 8BVAUN 969053 UNIQUE B. Vallien, height ca 19 cm, width ca 11,5 cm, depth ca 19,5 cm, total height including the plinth, mounted to an iron plate, 182,5 cm.

Small chips to the plinth.

Provenance

Ingemar Dahlberg collection

Literature

Gunnar Lindqvist, 'Bertil Vallien - Glass eats light', Carlssons 1999, compare similar blue heads illustrated from Bertil Vallien's solo exhibition in Borgholm's Castle 1996 and also in Palazzo Ducai, Venice in 1996, see pp 214-223.

Designer

Bertil Vallien (b. 1938) is a Swedish glass designer and ceramicist. He pursued his studies at Konstfack in Stockholm as well as on study trips to Denmark and the USA. In the 1960s, Vallien worked at Boda glassworks as an assistant to Erik Höglund, and was later linked to Åfors glassworks. Vallien works primarily in glass and has developed a distinctive style of sandcast glass sculptures, often depicting boats and heads. His sculptures have a kind of inner glow that lingers in the memory. Vallien is represented around the world and has been awarded the prize "Visionaries! Award" in 2001. Bertil was married to the artist Ulrica Hydman-Vallien.

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