Jacksons at TEFAF

WILHELM KÅGE

Group of Farsta vases

The “Farsta” series was first presented at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930 and is considered by many to be the height of painter and ceramicist Wilhelm Kåge’s work.

Kåge started at Gustavsberg porcelain factory in 1917, where he was creative director for more than 30 years. He is viewed as one of the most important ceramicists in Sweden of the 20th Century.

In 1942, Kåge founded the Gustavsberg Studio working with Stig Lindberg and Bernt Friberg. The studio was an artistic laboratory which ran parallel to the Gustavsberg Factory.

JOSEF FRANK

Upholstered Cabinet

Produced by Svenskt Tenn 1946.

Mahogany with interior of birch. Original chintz upholstery. Model 955

Josef Frank (1885-1967) was an Austrian architect, designer and theorist, educated in Vienna justafter the turn of the century. He was known as one of the leading modernists of the 1920s, but also for his criticism of 1930s modern architecture. He dismissed uniformity, insisting that it was pluralism that most characterised life in the new machine age.

GÖSTA ADRIAN NILSSON

Gösta Adrian Nilsson (GAN) was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1884, and is considered one of the pioneers of Swedish modernist art. Between 1920-1925 he lived in Paris and was associated with Alexander Archipenko and Fernand Léger. One can identify the influence of Léger in GAN’s machine-like figures in the shape of athletes, sailors and soldiers.

Clown for Joy

Provenance: Joy, one-year-old daughter to artists Gösta Nystroem and Gladys Heyman

GAN was close friends with both Nystroem and Heyman and made this relief for their daughter Joy at Christmas in 1923.

JEAN RENÉ GAUGUIN

Song of Roses

The fourth child of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) and Mette Sophie Gad (1850–1920). Jean René Gauguin was born in Paris in 1881. His family moved to Copenhagen in 1884. Six months later, his father left Copenhagen to pursue his life of creativity and wanderlust. Jean René last saw his father at age ten when Paul spent two weeks in Copenhagen before leaving for Tahiti. Although coming from a bourgeois Danish family he was brought up in very modest circumstances.

At the age of eight he fell out a third-floor window and sustained severe injuries from which he recovered. He left school in 1895 and undertook an 11-month sailor’s training program. Thereafter he apprenticed as a carpenter but hated the trade and went back to working as a sailor. In 1904, shortly after Paul Gauguin’s death, he inherited three of his father’s paintings that he immediately sold. With these funds he travelled throughout Europe, venturing as far as Greece, visiting museums and viewing monuments wherever he went. These travels initiated his long artistic career.