Modernist Rut Bryk Ceramic Wall Relief in White and Blue, Arabia c. 1980s

In the 1960s' Rut Bryk, already a pioneer of Finnish ceramic art, began making more simplified and modern abstract wall relief compositions. This work, although from the 1980s, is considered as a step into her last magnum opus, Ice Flow at the Mäntyniemi Presidential Residence, that was completed in 1991 after a few years of work. The work was inspired by a small river that flows into Lake Pulmankijärvi where Bryk and Wirkkala would stop on their southbound journey after their annual summer holiday in Lapland.