4th Mar, 2023 9:30 GMT/BST
20th Century Design
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Karin Johansson (Swedish, 1921-): Red Embroidered Abstract Tapestry, wool, on two wooden hanging battens, signed Ka-J, 98cm wide 106cm high
Johansson was born in Stockholm, she started as a nurse at the Royal Serafimer Hospital in Stockholm, in the 1950s became a full time artist. From the 1970s making painted and embroidered tapestries on linen fabric. She exhibited in Stockholm and provincial Swedish towns. She was a great friend of the artist Raymond Duncan, the brother of Isadora Duncan who gave her inspiration.
Sold for £450
Estimated at £250 - £350
Generally good condition overall, perhaps a little dirty. Top and bottom of tapestry have a wooden weighted rail stitched in. There are two hanging eyes screwed into the top rail.
Auction: 20th Century Design, 4th Mar, 2023
A rare stained glass window of St Margaret of Antioch by Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts luminary Sir Edward Burne-Jones leads the Spring 20th Century Design Sale with an estimate of £15,000-20,000 plus buyer’s premium. A further gem of the Arts and Crafts era on offer in the sale is a Silver and Enamel Cigarette Box by Omar Ramsden and Alwyn Carr (estimate: £4,000-6,000). Omar Ramsden was one of the most acclaimed and successful silversmiths of the early 20th century and a key influence on both silversmithing and the Arts and Crafts movement.
The sale will also offer a bumper selection of fine and early pieces by Yorkshire Arts and Crafts furniture maker Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson from three good private collections; Marco-Pierre White's Rudloe Arms Hotel, Denton Hall near Ilkley and the Tanfield Collection. Also on offer in the sale is an unusual and playful Private Collection of Automata dating from 1970 to 2000.
Please note condition report requests for furniture will be provided once items are out of storage.
Viewing
Thursday 2 March 10am-4pm, Friday 3 March 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am
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