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Bertil Vallien, Upright Boat, 1985. 42 x 12 x 75?. (From a private collection) The boat forms have long been part of Viking tradition representing the passage from life to death. The faces and masks are expressionless but suggest fear or longing, love or hate, watchfulness and thought. Sometimes a face or mask is the whole sculpture, sometimes it peers out from within a modernist form, suggesting a trapped soul. This sandcast ?Upright Boat? has 6 faces or masks, 2 houses and a number of columns and steps on the surface of the sculpture. Signed ?B. Vallien Kosta Boda 305880285?.