"Having seen a retrospective exhibition of my costume sketches over ten
years at the Pro Persona Gallery Stockholm 1998, Ingmar ordered some ink
drawings from me. He had seen some silhouette drawings at the exhibition,
and he wanted something in the same style. The rest was up to me. There
was, however, one stipulation: one red detail was to be included with one of
the female silhouettes - the shoes, for example (red shoes evoked in Ingmar
the memory of a boyhood crush). When the ten sketches were delivered, he
immediately got in touch to tell me that he'd hung them in a row on the wall
in the room in which he used to rest. He wanted four more paintings to fill
the rest of the wall. Ingmar mentioned on several occasions that he looked
at them every evening before taking his nap. Moreover, the drawing of the
lady with the red shoes traveled with him to his Karlaplan flat every time
he went to Stockholm." Anna Bergman, June 2009.