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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

49 x 34.3

Description:

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Markings:

signed with initials twice lower right

Exhibited:

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Helene Schjerfbeck, 2014-15, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature:

H. Ahtela (Einar Reuter), Helena Schjerfbeck, Stockholm, 1953, p. 366, no. 675; Helene Schjerfbeck. 150 Years, exh. cat., The Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, 2012, p. 272, catalogued and illustrated, no. 534; Lena Holger, Helene Schjerfbeck, Stockholm, 2005, pl. 77, illustrated

Provenance:

Kurt Lupander, Mtsvaara, Finland (the son of the artists cousin Johan Lupander. Johan and his sister, Esther, both sat for Schjerfbeck. Esther most famously was her model for Dancing Shoes (1882)); mells, Stockholm; Purchased from the above x the present owner in 2011