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ÖREBRO Auktionshuset i Örebro Östra Bangatan 42A 701 13 Örebro tel +46 19 2 59 00
info@auktion-orebro.se www.auktion-orebro.se (Swedish only)
Founded in 1970 as Arne Carlssons
Auktioner, then renamed in the late 1980s; offers a variety of furniture and works of art at sales patronised by Stockholmers only too happy to speed 100 miles west to this enchanting large town with its intimidating medieval castle.
N.B. Danish-based internet auction
firm
Lauritz.com has showrooms in Helsingborg, Malmö, Norrköping, Örebrö and Stockholm.
FAIRS The Stockholm Antik Mässan
(Stockholm International Antiques Fair) in February attracts over 30,000 visitors and 250 overwhelmingly Swedish exhibitors, with a sprinkling from abroad (Finland, Germany, Hungary and Belgium). Both the content and the
Above: Henrik Thor-Larsen’s Ovalia chair for Torlan (Staffanstorp, 1960s/70s), available at Bukowskis Stockholm in their Contemporary & Design sale on May 18.
quality are wide-ranging. Another large, nationwide antiques
fair is the Helsingborgs Art & Antiques Fair held on the south coast in late July, targeting wealthy vacationers.
DENMARK Copenhagen (København), population
540,000, makes an elegant showcase for the country’s auction and antiques trade, with the hub of the action on and around Bredgade, the elegant street that plays host to Bruun Rasmussen. Danish post-War furniture constitutes
perhaps the region’s main attraction to international buyers. Prices have soared in recent years but still remain cheaper than in New York, London or Tokyo. Georg Jensen silver, modern ceramics
and Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grondahl porcelain are other attractions, along with Danish painters – from the Golden Age (1800-40) down to Cobra works (notably Asger Jorn), via late 19th century Skagen landscapes and the subtle images of Vilhelm Hammershøi. Playful Danes also like to claim Caspar
David Friedrich (1774-1840) as an adopted son, given that he studied at the Copenhagen Academy; Swedes do too (he was born in a part of Pomerania that then belonged to Sweden). Denmark’s ties with northern Germany
have traditionally been closer than those with “rival” Swedes, but that has been changing since the 2000 opening of the Øresund Bridge. This has virtually turned Malmö, Sweden’s third city, into a suburb
of Copenhagen, and brought to the city’s saleroom an influx of Swedish buyers – who have a reputation for being more used to buying antiques than the Danes. When it comes to buying up auction houses, however, the Danes have few peers, as the recent rapacity of Bruun Rasmussen and
Lauritz.com (see below) abundantly proves.
Bruun Rasmussen Bredgade 33 1260 København tel +45 8818 1111 fax +45 8818 1112
info@bruun-rasmussen.dk www.bruun-rasmussen.dk
Founded in 1948 by Arne Bruun
Rasmussen after quitting Winkel & Magnussen (which folded in 1954 after dominating the Danish auction scene for half a century) and now run by his son Jesper – who says “our ambition is to keep a position in the Danish area and to expand”. He’s too modest – in recent times the firm has been pursuing an aggressive policy of buying up its Copenhagen rivals. After Ellekilde (whose owner Svend-Erik Olsen returned to his roots as an art and antiques dealer) and Kunsthallen, one of Denmark’s oldest
continued on page 54 the most exquisite sales in scandinavia
pieter aertsen sold for € 940 000
a jade incense burner sold for € 490 000
lucio fontana sold for € 410 000
porcelain urns, st. petersburg sold for € 960 000
a fabergé table clock sold for € 1 050 000
pieter brueghel II sold for € 1 980 000
pair of porcelain bowls sold for € 77 000
alexander ivanov sold for € 1 680 000
upcoming important sale 14th - 17th of june 2011
mail@uppsalaauktion.se www.uppsalaauktion.se phone + 46 18 - 12 12 22
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