Poster, Helene Schjerfbeck, Self-portrait with palette

Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm

In her self-portrait with palette, Helene Schjerfbeck looks blankly and absorbed in her work - down to the left, probably in the mirror. Her right eyebrow is raised, perhaps unconsciously, in a concentrated expression that has been smoothed out and hardened into a mask. The image is not pretentious. The strong emotional expression is conveyed through restraint. When Schjerfbeck paints the portrait in 1937, she is over 70 years old. She returns to a self-portrait from 1915, which she has since varied in several versions. The dark and light fields in the background probably represent the wall and ceiling, respectively. One senses in the self-portrait, in the roundness of the eye sockets, a stylization that approaches abstraction.

Art.no: MOM122