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Ingbritt Lagerberg
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Chairs appear again and again in Ingbritt Lagerberg's work - rococo chairs, English wing chairs, armchairs presented in strong, contrasting colors that seem to charge the objects with personality. Born in 1943 in Kungälv on the Swedish west coast, she has spent much of her adult life in Gothenburg, and the directness of her imagery reflects an artist who arrived at her visual language through sustained looking rather than academic training.
Lagerberg is largely self-taught, though she studied at Gerlesborgsskolan in Bohuslän - a school with a long tradition of nurturing independent artists on the shores of Bottnafjorden - and trained privately with Ole Lambertsson and Allan Lloyd-Mcoyd. Her first exhibition came in 1979, after which she has shown work across both Sweden and Norway.
Her medium of choice spans oil, tempera, acrylic, gouache, and several printmaking techniques, with color lithography playing a prominent role in the works that reach auction. The chair motif is not purely decorative: Lagerberg has spoken about grounding her imagery in real experience, with abstract means used to express concrete situations. The expressive weight placed on everyday furniture gives her prints an odd intimacy, as though the object stands in for something absent.
At auction, her works appear most frequently at regional Swedish houses, with Limhamns Auktionsbyrå, Auktionsmagasinet Vänersborg, and Göteborgs Auktionsverk among the regular venues. Price points are modest - color lithographs of chair motifs typically sell in the 300-1,100 SEK range - though a mixed-media work sold for 1,000 EUR. With 23 items documented across Auctionist, her auction presence is consistent with that of an artist whose output circulates primarily in the Swedish secondary market.