Poster, Sigrid Hjertén, Studio interior

Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm

Sigrid Hjertén depicts the social role-playing in artists' studios of the 1910s. In the painting, we see the artist squeezed into a sofa between two men, her husband Isaac Grünewald in a reddish suit. She is a woman and a painter in a male-dominated circle of modernists. To the self-portrait, she adds the traditional female nude model and the image of the "exotic" Romani woman. In the foreground, a femme fatale figure dressed in black poses next to Hjertén and Grünewald's son Iván. During the 1910s, the artist couple faced harsh and sometimes merciless criticism for their painting. Sigrid Hjertén was considered an obedient imitator of her husband, and her art was dismissed as feminine and "stupidly coquettish" compared to Grünewald, who was considered an "intelligent coquettish".

The motif on this poster is a work of art in the collection of Moderna Museet.

Item no.: MOM57

©Hjertén 2012 with permission of the copyright holders. Moderna Museet, Sweden. NM 5032