802. Helene Schjerfbeck

Catalogue text

Helene Schjerfbeck (Finland 1862‑1946). ”Flicka med ljust hår” (Fair-Haired Girl). Signed with monogram HS lower right. Oil on canvas, 38.5 x 32 cm.

Executed in 1916.

Stretcher with stamp: ”O.Y. Taidekauppa Boström Konsthandel A.B. Helsinki Helsingfors” and notes: ”Lars Jonason 10/11 -64 Astrid Jonason”.

Provenance

Engineer Jonas Hesselman (1877‑1957), Storängen, Stockholm.
(Probably) his daughter Astrid Jonason (1908‑1987).
(Probably) her son Lars Jonason (born 1946).
Stockholms Auktionsverk, 10‑13 April 1984, cat. no. 665.
An important Swedish private collection.

Exhibited

(Probably) Stenmans konstsalong, Helsinki, ”Helena Schjerfbeck 1879‑1917”, 12 September-1 October 1917, cat. no. 122.
Ateneum, Helsinki, ”Helene Schjerfbeck”, 2 February-5 April 1992, cat. no. 239.
Ateneum, Helsinki, ”Helene Schjerfbeck - 150 years”, 1 June-14 October 2012, cat. no. 365.
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, ”Helene Schjerfbeck - 150 years”, 3 November 2012- 12 February 2013, cat. no. 365.
Göteborgs konstmuseum, Gothenburg, ”Helene Schjerfbeck - 150 years”, 16 March-18 August 2013, cat. no. 365.
Åmells konsthandel, Stockholm, ”Helene Schjerfbeck”, 5-19 October 2013.

Literature

Christian Faerber (red.), Konst i svenska hem I: målningar och skulpturer från 1800 till våra dagar, 1942, in the collection of Engineer K. Jonas E. Hesselman, no. 362, p. 240.
H. Ahtela, Helena Schjerfbeck, 1953, p. 363, no. 451 in the catalogue, titled “Kvinnohuvud”.
Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse (ed.), Helene Schjerfbeck, exhibition catalogue, 1992, cat. no. 239, illustrated p. 177.
Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse (ed.), Helene Schjerfbeck - 150 years, exhibition catalogue, 2012, cat. no. 365, illustrated p. 209.
Åmells konsthandel, Helene Schjerfbeck, 2013, p. 28, illustrated p. 29.

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