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.
Ingemar Dahlberg collection
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.