To approach Crafoord Auktioner Stockholm's Art & Antiques auctions is like throwing open the gates to a wondrous and utterly magnificent world. It teems with high-quality works of art from different eras, and if you put your ear to the catalogue you can almost hear the murmur of turn-of-the-century French café life — or the soft padding of footsteps carrying a night light across the stone floor of an old manor house. And then the sheer scope — nearly 300 lots!
A Rococo commode by Carl Åhman sets the tone. This is followed by a Värend folk costume and then Carl Fagerberg's female bear caught in a trap.
Considerably more featherlight are the butterfly shoes in silk, the pair of French bowls with chirping birds — but the skeletons at the ballet academy, now what is that all about?
Halfway through the delights one might lie down and rest for a moment on the salon-red canapé and perhaps rest one's eyes on the hand-coloured pineapple from "Plantae Selectae", Nürnberg 1750–73. Then, Ottoman lantern in hand, one follows the Old Masters hanging above the Persian rugs and perhaps pauses before Shiro Kasamatsu's honey-golden autumn scene. Who knows?
Welcome to Crafoord Auktioner Stockholm and Art & Antiques XVIII!
