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Jens Risom: one of modern design’s great Danes

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Featuring an angular leg and a cutout, this Model T539 magazine table by Jens Risom achieved $2,800 plus the buyer’s premium in September 2019. Image courtesy of Wright and LiveAuctioneers.

Featuring an angular leg and a cutout, this Model T539 magazine table by Jens Risom achieved $2,800 plus the buyer’s premium in September 2019. Image courtesy of Wright and LiveAuctioneers.

NEW YORK — Jens Risom (1916-2016) was one of the earliest and most prominent Scandinavian furniture designers to bring that timeless aesthetic to the United States. Yet, for all his talent and fame at the height of his decades-long career, he has been underappreciated when compared to his Danish compatriots, like Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen and Borge Morgensen.

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Stephenson’s to auction Philadelphia estate art, jewelry and furniture, Oct. 14

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Abner K. Zook (Lancaster, Pa; 1921-2003), three-dimensional carved painting depicting an Amish barn-raising. Size: 49¾ in x 25¼ in (sight), framed size 57in x 33¾in. Accompanied by lengthy personal letter sent by Zook in 1967 to the person commissioning the painting, explaining aspects of the scene in minute detail. Estimate $10,000-$15,000

SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. – The Philadelphia area’s estate specialists, Stephenson’s Auctions in Bucks County, will conduct a Friday, October 14 sale featuring fine and folk art, platinum and diamond jewelry, and an extensive array of mostly mid-20th-century furniture and decorative accessories, including porcelain and glass. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.

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Phaidon’s ‘Jens Risom: A Seat at the Table’ will be the first authoritative biography of the influential but underappreciated Mid-century Modern designer.Courtesy of Phaidon Press

Jens Risom, unsung luminary of Scandinavian design, profiled in new book

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Phaidon will release ‘Jens Risom: A Seat at the Table,’ the first book to spotlight the Scandinavian design pioneer, on February 2.

Phaidon will release ‘Jens Risom: A Seat at the Table,’ a book that spotlights the Scandinavian designer, on February 2.

NEW YORK – Phaidon is pleased to present Jens Risom: A Seat at the Table, the first book to celebrate the seminal figure’s legacy in design history. One of the first designers to introduce Scandinavian design to the United States, Risom is an unsung hero of the highly popular Mid-century Modern movement. The 264-page Risom book will be released as a hardback on February 2, priced at $125.

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Fresh-to-market Grandma Moses painting is centerpiece of Everard June 8-9 auction

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Grandma Moses (nee Anna Mary Robertson, American, 1860-1961), ‘Deep Snow,’ 1957, oil on Masonite, 22¾ x 30 5/8in (framed), artist-signed lower left. Titled and dated on original artist’s label on verso. Direct line of provenance back to the artist. Copyright Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York. Estimate $60,000-$80,000

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Those who have always yearned to own an original Grandma Moses oil painting will have the rare opportunity to make that happen when Everard Auctions presents the revered New England artist’s Deep Snow as the headliner of its June 8-9 online auction. Fresh to the market after more than 40 years of private ownership, the prized artwork’s provenance goes back directly to Grandma Moses herself.

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