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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 26, 2005 | Uppsala Auktionskammare | Stockholm | Important sale May 2005 | 360 | $****** - ****** | "Testunden" |
paintings
76 x 98 cm (29.92 x 38.58 in)
Oil
Monogram signed
Ragnar Sandberg 1902-1972. (1902-1972)
Oil painting
Monogram signed, executed in 1943. "Testunden". D 76 x 98 cm.
Literature: Ragnar Sandberg. Ulf Lindhe, Uddevalla 1979, pictured page 56, mentioned page 62-63; In the production from the early forties, one also finds works that bear witness to a directly opposite ambition - to push the form towards a wild arbitrariness. Behind that ambition lay, according to what he once told me, the interest in Miró. Composition, black, yellow, blue from 1942 shows what it was all about: the teapot has been reduced to a black sign that repeats the shape of the apples, or signs for apples - all signs "rhyme" with each other. The black color in the image - whether it stands for a shadow, whether for an apple, or for the teapot - forms an incredibly abstract unity where some details seem to lack attachment to an observed reality. If one knew the "disorientation" that Sandberg confessed in the letter to X, one could easily believe that the painting was a capricious concession to a lavish and exuberant whim. But if you put the composition in its context, it immediately appears desperate. And there are more paintings of the same kind, "Testunden" from 1943 for example. There, a black abstraction explodes against a light fund of blue and ochre, everything is thought and attempt. The nature study shines with its total absence.
