1950 / 1954, Sweden

1950 / 1954, Sweden

Identifier
2006.1860
Transfer of custody
MFA Boston
Acquisition
Purchased in Sweden by Cora Gingsburg, LLC, April 2002; Purchased by the MFA, October 25, 2006. / Edwin E. Jack Fund
Collection
Technique
Depiction
Dimension
218.4 cm (height)
125.7 cm (width)
Production time
Production place
Type of object

Description

Printed wall hanging panel, entitled "Torn & Paradisträd" (Tower and Paradise Tree) (title sometimes given as "Livets träd" (Life's tree)). Screen-printed with bold stylized design of a flame-haired woman and a rooster standing underneath a large tree with figures, a birdcage, bird's nest, birds, church, and owl amongst the branches, steeple-like tower, and sun, all with heavy black outlines; motifs in raspberry-pink, blue, teal, yellow, brown, and beige on raspberry-pink ground with light and dark brown saw-tooth edge border; signed at lower right "Stig L." Hemmed sides, rod pockets at top and bottom.