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Inga Eriksson Loarp
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Inga Eriksson Loarp was born on September 10, 1921, in Linköping, and remained connected to the city throughout her working life. She died on September 24, 2016, in Landeryd. Her name in auction records combines her birth surname Eriksson with Loarp, the family name she carried in later life - works are sometimes authenticated by Ewa Loarp, suggesting a daughter or close family member who has overseen her estate.
Loarp's output divides between sculpture and works on paper or panel. Her sculpture is the larger body of work and gives the clearest sense of her concerns: she modelled primarily in clay, working at a human scale and at the intimate scale of small objects. Seated nude studies and heads of boys recur through her catalogue, modelled with attention to mass and posture rather than surface finish. Alongside figurative work she produced animals - a bear, birds - and abstract or semi-abstract ceramic pieces such as the titled work "Analog". The clay pieces were left as fired works rather than cast in bronze, giving them a directness and materiality that suits their modest scale.
She also worked in relief, producing painted gypsum reliefs at approximately 34 by 23 centimetres, and facade reliefs in concrete mixed with marble chips - a more architecturally oriented mode of work that suggests she may have received some public or architectural commissions during her active years. These concrete reliefs point to an ambition that extended beyond the studio and into the built environment of Linköping.
As a painter, Loarp favoured oil on panel and mixed media on cardboard, her subjects including still lifes, harbour views of Linköping's motor boat harbour, and abstract compositions dated to the 1960s. The harbour paintings are specific to Linköping's geography - a local commitment to place that runs through her work as a whole. The mixed media pieces, particularly the 1960s abstract compositions, suggest she was engaged with broader currents in Swedish postwar art even while remaining rooted in regional practice.
Loarp's auction record is concentrated at Gomér & Andersson Linköping and through Auctionet, which together account for all 37 lots catalogued on Auctionist. This distribution reflects the local character of her practice and her continued presence in Östergötland collecting circles. No final prices are recorded for these lots, which points to an emerging or modestly priced market - typical for regional artists of her generation whose work circulates primarily among local collectors and institutions.