Gudrun Eduards, "Fat ladies going for a walk"
Signed by Eduards and numbered II/II? Executed in 1989. Bronze, 40 x 40 x 20 cm. Mounted on a wooden plinth.
The Artist's Family
"Gudrun Eduards - Skulptör", Britt Hallgren, academic paper, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen (Art history department), Göteborgs Universitet, HT 1994. Illustrated on the cover.
Another edition is placed at the HSB head office in Gothenburg.
Gudrun Eduards (1935-2022) was schooled in drawing and sculpture at Slöjdföreningens skola in Gothenburg in 1951 and in sculpture at the Los Angeles City College in Los Angeles, USA, from 1952 to 1955. Eduards then moved to Italy to study for the sculptor Marino Marini at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. She travelled to Guatemala and Mexico before returning to Sweden in 1964. Gudrun Eduards is represented by several public works, mainly in the city of Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast. These include 'Figures in Wind' in concrete and metal canvas from 1971, 'Skridskoseglaren' in painted concrete and the sculpture 'Vingslag' in bronze from 1994. In Stockholm there is the 'Finland Monument' in Värtahamnen, executed in cast iron, granite and concrete during 1984-1986.