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Hans Hedberg

(Sweden, 1917-2007)
Estimate
300 000 - 350 000 SEK
26 500 - 30 900 EUR
27 300 - 31 900 USD
Hammer price
360 000 SEK
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Hans Hedberg
(Sweden, 1917-2007)

a large faience sculpture of a lemon, Biot, France, early 1990s.

Glazed in yellow and a little green, height ca 57 cm, including plexi stand, length ca 84 cm.

Chip.

Literature

Daniel Minassian, 'Hans Hedberg, Elden, hjärtat och leran', Örnsköldsvik, 1999, compare massive lemon sculpture in similar size from 1991, ill pp 168, 171.

Designer

Hans Hedberg was a Swedish artist and ceramicist who studied in Faenza, Italy, from 1947 to 1948. From 1949, he operated his own studio with a gas kiln in Biot on the French Riviera. He worked with organic unbound shapes, using various naturalistic glazes. Initially, he focused mainly on functional ceramics but later became known for his exquisite sculptures in many different sizes, crafted in a high-fired earthenware known as faience. Primarily various fruits and eggs, ranging from small eggs to garden sculptures up to one metre tall.

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