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Siri Rathsman

(Sweden, 1895-1974)
Siri Rathsman
(Sweden, 1895-1974)

Siri Rathsman, Portrait of Birger Simonsson.

Signed S Rathsman. Canvas 56 x 45 cm.

Crackle glaze. Superficial stains.

Provenance

From the Collection of Ove Christian Lunn, Danish Diplomat and Consul General for Denmark in Shanghai 1928-1935. Lunn had an exciting diplomatic career and was posted 1910-18 in Oslo, 1918-24 in San Francisco, 1924-28 Melbourne and then finally Shanghai 1928-35. Unfortunately he died of pneumonia one week after returning to Copenhagen in 1935. His wife, Ruth moved in to a house in Vedbaek, where the objects have been ever since.

Exhibitions

Gothenburg Museum of Art, "Pauli-Rathsman-Sjödahl", 2 September - 22 October 1989, cat. no. 1921.

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