Lot 68: ANNA PETRUS

Unique and important table
Tabletop etched with ‘A. Petrus.’ and base hand-carved with ‘A. Petrus.’.

65.5 cm high, 66 cm diameter

Hand carved oak, etched and formed copper.

1923

Jubileumsutställningen’, Gothenburg, 8 May–15 October 1923; ‘Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes’, Galerie des Invalides, Paris, April–October 1925; ‘Anna Petrus: konstnär och formgivare’, Bror Hjorts Hus, Motala Grafiska, 9 April–29 May 2005

Nils G Wollin, <em>Svenska Sl&#246;jdf&#246;reningens tidskrift</em>, book 1, 1925, illustrated pp. 24-25; Sonja Lyttkens, <em>Anna Petrus: konstna¨r och formgivare</em>, exh, cat., Bror Hjorts Hus, Motala Grafiska, 2005, illustrated n.p.: Marie Rehnberg, <em>Anna Petrus: Skulpto¨r och industrikonstna¨r</em>, Lund, 2009, illustrated pp. 88-90

There is one other known variant in light oak with a pewter table top in the Petrus family collection.