Property from the Estate of Lone Backe and Henning Larsen
Helene Schjerfbeck
Dancing Shoes
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Lone Backe and Henning Larsen
Helene Schjerfbeck
Finnish
1862 - 1946
Dancing Shoes
signed with initials and dated H S / 83 lower left
oil on canvas laid on panel
unframed: 19 by 25cm., 8½ by 9¾in.
framed: 24.5 by 30.5cm., 9¾ by 12in.
Sold together with a colour lithograph, Dancing Shoes, with initials HS, unframed: 48 by 62.5cm., 19 by 24½in., framed: 52.5 by 67cm., 20¾ by 26¼in.
(2)
Einar Reuter (purchased from the artist; Reuter wrote under the name of H. Ahtela), thence by descent (sale: Christies, London, 24 March 1988, lot 135A)
Purchased at the above sale by a private collector (sale: Sotheby’s London, 3 June 2003, lot 214)
Purchased at the above sale by the late owners
Helsinki, Stenman Gallery, Helene Schjerfbeck, 1879-1917, 1917, no. 59
Helsinki, Ateneum, Helene Schjerfbeck Memorial Exhibition, 1954, no. 12
Helsinki, Ateneum, Realism, 1962, no. 164
Helsinki, Ateneum, Helene Schjerfbeck: themes and variations, 1962, no. 16
Washington, Phillips Collection; New York, National Academy of Design: Helene Schjerfbeck: Finland’s Modernist Rediscovered, 1992-1993, no. 58 (illustrated in colour in the catalogue)
H. Ahtela (Einar Reuter), Helene Schjerfbeck, Helsinki, 1953, no. 93: p. 357, catalogued; p. 43, fig. 8 (illustrated)
Helene Schjerfbeck. 150 Years, exh. cat., The Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, 2012, no. 89, p. 109
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