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Materials:

charcoal and chalk on paper

Size Notes:

41 x 33

Description:

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Markings:

signed with initials and dated 45lower right

Exhibited:

Stockholm, Stenmans Konstsalong, Helene Schjerfbeck, 1954, no. 153; Stockholm, Stenmans Konstsalong, Helene Schjerfbeck, 1958, no. 139; Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; New York, The National Academy of Design, Helene Schjerfbeck, 1992-93, no. 502; Aalborg, Nordjyllands kunstmuseum; Turku, Art Museum, Helene Schjerfbeck Temaer og variationer fra 1901-1945, 1997-98, no. 43, illustrated in the catalogue; Paris, Muse dArt moderne de la Ville de Paris, Lumire du monde, lumire du ciel, 1998, no. 183; Modum (Norway), Stiftelsen Modums Blaafarvevaerk,To Malerinner,Helene Schjerfbeck, Asta Nrregaard,1998, no. 107; Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum, Helene Schjerfbeck. 150 Years, 2012, p. 352, no. 720; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Helene Schjerfbeck, 2014-15, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature:

H. Ahtela (Einar Reuter), Helena Schjerfbeck, Helsinki, 1953, p. 372, no. 1003; Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse, Catalogue of Works, in Helene Schjerfbeck, exh. cat, Ateneum Art Museum, 1992, p. 298, catalogued and illustrated, no. 502; Lena Holger, Helene Schjerfbeck. Teckningar och akvareller, Stockholm 1994, p. 98, catalogued, p. 99, pl. 43, illustrated; Lena Holger, Helene Schjerfbeck, kvinnor, mansportrtt, sjlvportrtt, landskap, stilleben, Helsinki, 1997, p. 110, catalogued, p. 111, illustrated; Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse, Helene Schjerfbeck. And Nobody Knows What I am Like, Sulkava 2000 (English translation, Helsinki 2002), p. 75, illustrated; Catalogue of Works, in Helene Schjerfbeck. 150 Years, exh. cat., Ateneum Art Museum, 2012, p. 352, catalogued and illustrated, no. 720; Helene Schjerfbeck, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London 2019, p. 54, referenced, p. 55, fig. 42, illustrated

Provenance:

Gsta Stenman, Stockholm; thence x descent to his grandson (sale: Christies, London, 29 November 1990, lot 15); Rune Andrasson (1925-1999, creator of Bamsecartoons, purchased at the above sale); mells, Stockholm (purchased from the above's estate); Purchased from the above x the present owner in 2004