LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

22.24 in. (56.50 cm.) (height) by 17.52 in. (44.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials and dated 16 lower right

Exhibited:

Stockholm, Liljevalchs konsthall, Finsk konst, 1916, no. 307 (as Flicka med utslaget hår). Helsinki, Art House, Helena Schjerfbeck Memorial Exhibition, 1980

Literature:

H. Ahtela (Einar Reuter), Helene Schjerfbeck, Stockholm, 1953, p. 362. no. 434, catalogued (as Flicka med blont hår, incorrectly dated 1915). Helene Schjerfbeck: Finland's Modernist Revisited, exh. cat., Helsinki, 1992, p. 183, no. 256, catalogued & illustrated; p. 315, cited. Lea Bergström & Sue Cedercreutz-Suhonen, Helene Schjerfbeck: Models, Helsinki, 2003, pp. 62-63, cited. Helene Schjerfbeck 150 Years, exh. cat., Helsinki, 2012, p. 211, no. 368, catalogued & illustrated

Provenance:

Uno Donner, Stockholm (purchased from the artist at the 1916 exhibition. Donner, 1872-1958, was a Finnish engineer living in Stockholm, whose brother Ossian had founded the United Woollen Mills factory in Hyvinkää). Private collection