Estate Sale Find...

I saw and it and I immediately knew I had to have it.  It was $12.00 but 50% off.  Then I bargained for it and paid about $5.  I found it on Ebay for about $50.  And now it hangs in my den by the TV.  Here it is and some history to go along with it.

c. Minerva Reproductions, Copenhagen 1969 * CHR BJORN LARSEN: KRISTINA / Private Collection * made in Denmark - Mi 196

Christian Bjorn Larsen was born in Buenos Aires in 1931. He studied at the Arts and Crafts Society in Gothenburg, Crafts School under Professor Lüchow-Nielsen in Copenhagen, and at the Art Academy in Stockholm.

His works were featured in exhibitions in Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus, Malmö, Sundsvall, Gallery Blue Fire, Oland, and at the invitation of Dusseldorf city of Die Brücke. He has also done covers for magazines, book covers, and film posters (his most notable is with Ingmar Bergman). He also did work for Unicef Greeting Cards Collection in 1965, Unicef Calender in 1967. and was selected in 1968 by UNICEF's Arts Committee, together with seven other international artists to participate in UNICEF-Fine-Art Reproduction.