HANS HEDBERG, a faience sculpture of cherries with stalks of bronze, Biot, France.
The cherries height ca 30 cm, the green patinated bronze stalks stamped HEDBERG 2/8, height excluding the base ca 88 cm, the steel base with a rusty surface 100 x 70 x 30 cm.
Mounted to the base with springs, the mount is unstable and leaning slightly.
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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