A Considered Selection of Art and Objects

Large relief of plaster 'Mountains, trees and people', Denmark, second half of the 20th century. Very trendy, great scale.

Niels Mandrup Bruun was a Danish painter, draughtsman and graphic artist born in Ribe and a student from Ribe Katedralskole in 1938. He later joined the resistance movement, which led him to flee to Sweden in 1944, where he lived for a period in Uppsala with the painter and sculptor Bror Hjorth. He mediated a contact to the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts, where Niels Bruun was admitted as a student under Professor Sven Erixson.
After the war Niels Bruun was able to return to Denmark where he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Bruun studied under Aksel Jørgensen, Elof Risebye and Vilhelm Lundstrøm, and where Aksel Jørgensen in particular gained importance for his artistic work. He painted in an expressionist idiom often entwined some abstraction. Part of his production shows motifs from his native Ribe and the marshland he was strongly inspired by.

His work is represented at the Ribe Kunstmuseum.

Artist: Niels Mandrup Bruun (1918-1993)

Material: Patinated plaster

Period: Unknown

Dimensions: Height: 65 cm, width: 75 cm

Condition: Vintage condition, age and usage traces, including scratches, yellowing, marks and notches. Plaster refuse in one corner.

Edgy bronze sculpture by Swedish sculptor Stefan Thorén, signed S. Thorén.

Thorén is primarily remembered for his many public sculptures, but he was a multi-faceted artist and a great painter. Born in Sweden, Thorén pursued formal artistic training during the post-WWII boom of Scandinavian modernism. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he sharpened his craft at the prestigious Royal Institute of Art (Kungliga Konsthögskolan) in Stockholm. During his academic years, he studied under two monumental figures of Swedish art history, Otte Sköld and Eric Grate.

He rejected mainstream artistic trends of his era, choosing instead a rugged, individualistic approach to form.

Today, his works and unique signature style serve as key examples of mid-to-late 20th-century Swedish abstract and modernist sculpture.

Artist: Stefan Thorén (1927-1997)

Origin: Sweden

Material: Bronze

Dimensions: Circa H22cm

Condition: Vintage condition, no remarks

Bengt Ivar Crantz was a Swedish painter from Toarp.

Crantz attended Otte Sköld's painting school (Otte Skölds målarskola), Stockholm and took study trips to Italy and France (1948), France and Spain (1949) and Spain in (1951-52). He first exhibited in Gothenburg in 1944. Other exhibitions include Gothenburg (1947) and Stockholm (1950). He was a member of the Dalslands Konstförenings Konstnärsförbund (now Dalslands Konstnärsförbund) artist group (est. 1935) and exhibited with them frequently from the late 1940s and was involved in their 40th anniversary exhibition at Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm in 1975.

Examples of Crantz's works are held in the collections of Nationalmuseum (National Museum) and the Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art), Stockholm and Herman Gotthardt's art collection at the Malmö Art Museum.

Bengt Ivar Crantz died in 2001, aged 84.

NOTE: available w/c 16 November 2026

Artist: Bengt Crantz (1916–2001)

Medium: Oil on canvas, framed

Origin: Sweden

Period: Unknown

Dimensions: Frame: 70 x 58 cm

Condition: Vintage condition, craquelure, use- and age-related wear

Golden Gate by Lavran Tannberg, gold leaf on board, signed.

Lavran Tannberg (born December 14, 1949) is a prominent Estonian-Swedish contemporary artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He is best known for his vibrant, abstract, and psychedelic-leaning fine art, often heavily inspired by cosmic themes, altered states of consciousness, and spiritual iconography.

Artist: Lavran Tannberg (born 1949)

Medium: gold leaf on board, unframed

Origin: Sweden

Period: Unknown

Dimensions: 122x122 cm (thickness 7 cm)

Condition: Vintage condition

A very suggestive iron sculpture on marble base, signed by the artist.

Jan Ostwald was a Swedish silversmith and designer. He developed his independent artistic practice relatively late, beginning to create these forms in the mid-1980s after a long career working with established designers, including Sigurd Persson. He was a professor at Nyckelviksskolan in Stockholm, influencing the education of a whole generation of designers. He also worked as a designer for Rune Monö and the architect Carl-Axel Acking in Stockholm. His work is represented in major Swedish collections including the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

Artist: Jan Ostwald (1931–2023)

Material: Iron

Period: Second half of the 20th century

Dimensions: 12x10 on base

Condition: Age-related patina

A tall stoneware totemic form with textured surface covered in pale turquoise and ochre glaze, impressed CCP mark, height 49cm.

Chris Carter was born in Warwickshire on the 12th October 1945. He set up his pottery studio at Highfield Farm in Grendon, Warwickshire in 1971. His first pots were mainly tableware and terracotta garden pots which he sold from his studio and later from his shop at Drayton Manor Park, it was here that he gave demonstrations of throwing pots on the wheel to visitors to the park every weekend. Chris had a strong desire to make more individual pieces and in 1986 he finished at Drayton Manor and began selling his bespoke pots through galleries.

 Chris has exhibited his work all over Britain as well as internationally. By the late 1970s he began to make one off pieces and in 1985 he was selling his work at Peter Dingley's gallery in Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Chestnut Gallery at Bourton-on-the-Water. From here he began exhibiting his work in some London galleries. During the 1990s he became Potter in Residence for a time at Warwick Museum and in 1992 two of his pots were purchased for the Sainsbury collection. In 2008 one of his pieces was added to the Ashmolean Museum collection in Oxford.

 By the 1990s he began a long association with the Ombersley Galley and the Hart Gallery, which lead to him being asked to exhibit his pots and give a lecture in Chicago in 2001 and again at the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts. Other important galleries Chris has exhibited at include Bettles Gallery in Ringwood, The Gallery Upstairs in Henley-in-Arden, The Round House Gallery in Derbyshire, The Alpha House Gallery in Sherborne, Roger Billcliffe in Glasgow and the Gallery at Bevere in Worcester with ceramic curator Stuart Dickens.

Source: https://www.chriscarterpottery.co.uk/history/

Artist: Chris Carter (British, born 1945)

Material: Stoneware

Period: Unknown

Dimensions: Height 49cm

Condition: Appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration

A vintage carafe and four matching glasses from the Tupa collection, designed by Kaj Franck in 1948 for Iittala, Finland.

Crafted from rich olive-green blown glass, the set embodies Franck’s understated Scandinavian modernism. The generously rounded carafe features a short neck and distinctive rolled rim, complemented by four gently flared glasses with solid circular bases.

Designer: Kaj Franck
Manufacturer: Iittala, Finland
Year of design: 1948
Material: Blown coloured glass
Dimensions: H 5–15.5 cm
Condition: Minor age-related wear

Sold as a set of five pieces.

Swedish artist Lennart Aschenbrenner (b. 1943) lives in Nice, France. He studied at the Scanian School of Painting and the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. This abstract lithograph is signed, dated and numbered.

Lennart Aschenbrenner has had about sixty solo exhibitions at galleries and art galleries in Sweden and France as well as participated in a number of group exhibitions at, among other things, graphics biennales in Europe such as the graphics biennials in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in Baden-Baden, Germany.

Lennart Aschenbrenner’s work is represented at about ten art museums, including the National Museum and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the art museums in Gothenburg, Eskilstuna and Ystad, the Art Museum of North Jutland in Aalborg and the Fondation Provence-Cote d'Azur in Marseille.

Artist: Lennart Aschenbrenner (1943)

Medium: Lithograph

Period: 1986

Dimensions: Frame dimensions: 53 x 68 cm

Framing: Framed in a white frame, glass

Condition: Vintage condition consistent with age, no remarks