19th Century European Paintings, including German, Austrian, Hungarian & Slavic Paintings, The Orientalist Sale, and The Scandinavian Sale

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Lot 318
  • 318

Helene Schjerfbeck Finnish, 1862-1946

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Description

  • Helene Schjerfbeck
  • Tytön Muotokuva, Sinistä Ja Ruskea (Study for Portrait of a Girl in Blue and Brown (Inez) )
  • signed with initials HS l.r.
  • charcoal on paper
  • 38 by 31cm., 15 by 12 1/4 in.

Provenance

Gösta Stenman Collection

Exhibited

Stockholm, Stenmans Konstsalong, Helène Schjerfbeck, 1954, no. 120
Helsingfors, Konsthall, Helene Schjerfbeck, 1954

Literature

Probably, H. Ahtela, Helene Schjerfbeck, Helsinki, 1953, no. 955 (measurements given as 46 by 38cm.)

Catalogue Note

The present work is almost certainly the sketch for Inez (Portrait of a Girl in blue and brown) (Ahtela, no. 957) painted in Stockholm in 1944 while Schjerfbeck was hospitalised in the Saltsjöbaden sanatorium.