GÖSTA GRÄHS. Sculptural teapot, ceramic, own studio, signed.

Height 22,5 cm. Width 25.5 cm.

Gösta Grähs, born in 1938, like his wife Kerstin Hörnlund (also represented in this auction) received his education at Konstfack in Stockholm in the early 1960s, with Stig Lindberg as his teacher. He has made himself known as a very wayward and original ceramist, and, with the exception of a period at Rörstrand in 1982-86, has always worked as a free artist. His both turned and modeled teapots in countless variations have attracted notice, and testify to a playful and experimental attitude to the clay and ceramics. Represented at Nationalmuseum and Röhsska Museum, among others.
His teapots were presented in 2004 by the Röhsska Museum:
“Gösta Grähs stretches our notions about the teapot (...) challenges the idea of the teapot principle. Gösta Gräh's teapots operate in the whole field between, on the one hand, the austere and stripped-down object of use, without all the ornamental elements and, on the other, the free fabulation in which the will to tell strikes with full force.”

Literature: Gösta Grähs — One hundred teapots. With text by Mailis Stensman and photo by Tord Lund. Edition Museum, Uddevalla 1995.