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Marianne Richter
'Rubirosa röd' rug
- Estimate
- £20,000 - 30,000
Lot Details
Handwoven wool on a linen warp.
designed 1958, executed 1959
372 x 226.3 cm (146 1/2 x 89 1/8 in.)
Produced by Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB, Båstad, Sweden. Woven with manufacturer’s mark AB MMF and artist’s initials MR.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The 'Rubirosa' rugs were made in different colours of green, brown, red, blue and executed with smaller or larger triangles. The present lot was woven by the talented and long employed artisan weaver Gulli Jönsson, born 1920, employed in 1943, and retired at the age of 65.
Phillips wishes to thank Angelica Persson from Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB for her assistance with the cataloguing of the present lot.
Phillips wishes to thank Angelica Persson from Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB for her assistance with the cataloguing of the present lot.
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