Code: 10570
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'Pandora' 1991 an opaque studio glass circular pedestal bowl with multicoloured decoration and raised red roundels with an overall width of 395mm, created for Kosta Boda by Monica Astrid Stensdotter Backström (1939 – 2020)
Monica was one of Sweden's leading glass artists in the 20th and 21st century. In 1965 after her art studies at ”Konstfack” in Stockholm she won a competition that was arranged for the 100th anniversary of Kosta Glasbruk (a Swedish glassworks now known as Kosta Boda) which led to her employment as a glass designer at the company. She went on to work for Kosta for forty years. In the late 1960s and 1970s, she also designed, clothing, jewellery, furniture, and household objects, made public artworks, and collaborated with artists and designers such as Erik Höglund, Ultrica Hydman Vallien, Bertil Vallien, Ann Wolff, and Göran Warff.
In Scandinavia, her work has been exhibited at or is held in the Kalmar Art Museum, National Museum, and the Rohaaka Museum amongst other galleries and institutions elsewhere in Europe. Pieces by Backström are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands; as well as in collections in the United States and Japan.
