LOT DETAILS

Materials:

White patinated bronze on a board of teak and oregon pine

Measurements:

18.50 in. (47.00 cm.) (height) by 47.05 in. (119.50 cm.) (width) by 9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (width)

Edition:

2 of 6

Markings:

Inscribed on the reverse Sigurjón Ólafsson, 2/6

Exhibited:

Exhibited (the plaster version): “13 Kunstnere i Telt”, Exhibition in a tent near Bellevue, Klampenborg, May-June 1941, no. 101. Exhibited (the plaster version): Snedkerlaugets Møbeludstilling, Copenhagen 1941. Exhibited together with furniture by Finn Juhl. Exhibited (similar version in bronze): „Finn Juhl - et dansk designikon“, Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark; Falkenbergs Museum − Designmuseet i Halland, Sweden and Designmuseum Gent, Belgium, 2012–14

Literature:

Sculptor Sigurjón Ólafsson (1908–1982) Catalogue Raisonné, no. LSÓ 234. Esbjørn Hiort: „Finn Juhl“, Arkitektens Forlag, Copenhagen 1990, the plaster version ill. p. 30. Peter H. Hansen: „Finn Juhl og hans hus“, Gyldendal and Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen 2009, version ill. p. 24