LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor, gouache and charcoal on paper

Measurements:

14.57 in. (37.00 cm.) (height) by 12.60 in. (32.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials lower right

Exhibited:

Helsinki, Art House, Helena Schjerfbeck Memorial Exhibition, 1980, no. 42. Helsinki, Ateneum, Helene Schjerfbeck, 1992, no. 325, illustrated in the catalogue. Helsinki, Ateneum; Stockholm, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde; Gothenburg, Museum of Art; Helene Schjerfbeck 150 Years, 2012, no. 461, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature:

H. Ahtela (Einar Reuter), Helena Schjerfbeck, Stockholm, 1953, p. 365, no. 578, catalogued (as Fäktaren). Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse, '[..] Notes on Helene Schjerfbeck's relationship with works by other painters, particularly El Greco' in Helene Schjerfbeck 150 Years, exh. cat., Helsinki, 2012, p. 53, cited