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Helsinki Winter Sale F504
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Selected Gifts E1128
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Restaurant Frantzén – Glasses E1133
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Sculptures Selected F572
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Swedish Modern Lighting – Winter Edition E1095
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Ola Billgren - A collection F405

Ola Billgren (1940-2001) was a Swedish artist who early on formulated and contemplated the connection between art as a language and reality. He has been described as both a theorist and a sensualist, and in his works, he managed to capture both historical and contemporary aspects in a single image. Billgren's art is characterized by duality and ambiguity, both in expression and content. His dreamlike presence is unmistakable, from his photorealistic works in the 1960s to the later romantic elements in his artistic career.

Born in Copenhagen in 1940, Billgren became one of the most significant artists of his generation in Scandinavia. Both of his parents were artists and provided him with early artistic education. Alongside painting, he worked with prints, film, photography, and stage design. He also regularly contributed art criticism to magazines and newspapers, playing a crucial role in elevating the level of discourse around art in Sweden throughout his life.

His groundbreaking photorealistic images from the 1960s featured everyday subjects distinguished by their unique lighting and tenderness. In the 1980s, he pursued two distinct directions: one in painting and one in photography. In his painting, he explored romantic nature abstractions, which represented a return to modernism's focus on color.

This themed auction includes watercolors, drawings, photographs, lithographs, and an oil painting by Ola Billgren, primarily from the 1970s. The collection comprises many personal portraits of his close friend, Sven Henrysson. Some of the lithographs are unsigned, but all originate from the same collection.

Ola Billgren's works are represented in several museums, including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Malmö Museum, the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, the Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte in Lübeck, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk. His works can also be found in the collections of Lund University and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

 
36 items
Ola Billgren, 'Portrait of Sven Henrysson'.
Ola Billgren, 'Portrait of Sven Henrysson'.
Hammer price 
160 000 SEK
Estimate
180 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, sunset.
Ola Billgren, sunset.
Hammer price 
12 000 SEK
Estimate
8 000 SEK
Ola Billgren,
Ola Billgren,
Hammer price 
12 000 SEK
Estimate
15 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, Majdag Kabusa.
Ola Billgren, Majdag Kabusa.
Hammer price 
11 500 SEK
Estimate
25 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, interior with still life and figures.
Ola Billgren, interior with still life and figures.
Hammer price 
8 200 SEK
Estimate
12 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, Sven - försök.
Ola Billgren, Sven - försök.
Hammer price 
7 900 SEK
Estimate
3 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, cibachrome mounted on aluminum, certificate.
Ola Billgren, cibachrome mounted on aluminum, certificate.
Hammer price 
5 400 SEK
Estimate
15 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, C-print with printed signature.
Ola Billgren, C-print with printed signature.
Hammer price 
4 200 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 73.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 73.
Hammer price 
3 600 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 71.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 71.
Hammer price 
3 100 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, photographs 56 pcs unsigned.
Ola Billgren, photographs 56 pcs unsigned.
Hammer price 
3 200 SEK
Estimate
4 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 70.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 70.
Hammer price 
2 600 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, Sven.
Ola Billgren, Sven.
Hammer price 
2 400 SEK
Estimate
10 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 63.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 63.
Hammer price 
2 400 SEK
Estimate
2 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, Sven.
Ola Billgren, Sven.
Hammer price 
2 200 SEK
Estimate
3 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, Shoes.
Ola Billgren, Shoes.
Hammer price 
2 000 SEK
Estimate
4 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed, dated, and numbered 81 63/100.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed, dated, and numbered 81 63/100.
Hammer price 
1 500 SEK
Estimate
2 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 82.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 82.
Hammer price 
1 365 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren,
Ola Billgren,
Hammer price 
1 312 SEK
Estimate
2 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed, dated, and numbered 74 EA.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed, dated, and numbered 74 EA.
Hammer price 
1 300 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 85.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 85.
Hammer price 
1 300 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, Sven.
Ola Billgren, Sven.
Hammer price 
1 100 SEK
Estimate
8 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 77.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 77.
Hammer price 
1 015 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, drawing signed and dated 70.
Ola Billgren, drawing signed and dated 70.
Hammer price 
830 SEK
Estimate
3 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, portrait.
Ola Billgren, portrait.
Hammer price 
700 SEK
Estimate
3 000 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 71.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 71.
Hammer price 
650 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 73.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 73.
Hammer price 
650 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 78.
Ola Billgren, lithograph signed and dated 78.
Hammer price 
350 SEK
Estimate
1 500 SEK