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Helene Schjerfbeck - The Convalescent [1888] by Gandalf
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This picture was painted in St. Ives in Cornwall, England. Helene Schjerfbeck visited the region twice in the late 1880s. The sitter in the picture was a vivacious girl of about six to whom her exasperated teacher was only too glad to give leave to sit for artists. The brushwork is lively and the treatment of light is reminiscent of impressionism. Helene Schjerfbeck (1862 - 1946) had an exceptionally long and productive career. She began art studies at the age of 11, and by the time she died at 83 she had painted well over a thousand pictures. Her path as an artist ranged from history paintings in the 1870s to modernist movements in the 1940s.

[Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki - Oil on canvas, 92 x 107 cm]