"Verdenslyset"
Signed E Thoresen and dated -38. Canvas 65.5 x 68 cm.
No Artist's Resale Right as stated in the printed catalog.
Advokat Luterkort's collection.
Private collection, Helsingborg.
Private collection, Stockholm.
Elsa Thoresen and her husband, the artist Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, both members of the Danish Surrealist Group, traveled to Paris in 1938. There, Thoresen exhibited two artworks: Verdenslyset [World Light, 1937] and Jeb ved det ikke [I Don't Know, 1937]. Verdenslyset is reminiscent of the auction's motif from 1938 with the same title.
Read more here: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/magazine/trois-artistes-femmes-surrealistes-scandinaves-a-paris/