Helene Schjerfbeck
"Flickprofil i grön klänning" (Girl profile in green dress)
Signed HS. Executed after 1933. Canvas 32 x 32 cm.
Provenance
Earlier in the collections of Surveyor of the Court Gösta Stenman.
Subsequently in the collections of Mrs Gerda Engström (purchased from the above 1942-1943, according to sales ledger No 2301/120 1943-1944 for Stenman Gallery).
Thence by inheritance within the family to the present owner.
Exhibitions
Stenmans konstsalong, Storgatan 10, Stockholm, "Helene Schjerfbeck -Exposition i Stockholm Hösten 1937", 12 September - the last days of October (the exhibition period was extended several times), n:o 1.
Stenmans konstsalong, Storgatan 10, Stockholm, "Helene Schjerfbeck -hyllningsutställning", 23 September - (23 October) 15 November, 1942, n:o 76.
Literature
H. Ahtela, "Helena Schjerfbeck", 1953, catalogued page 368 as n:o 758.
More information
On verso inscription in pencil: "H. Schjerfbeck, målad efter 1933. Gösta Stenman".