HELENE SCHJERFBECK

This comprehensive monograph introduces the life and work of the painter, with over 80 impressive works from all of her creative pha ses. The publication shows how, despite her physical isolation, the artist kept up with the art of her contemporaries through illust rations from art and fashion magazines. Here, both the famous self-portraits and the picture series The Convalescent, The Seamstress and The Death of Wilhelm von Schwerin play a crucial role, as do as numerous portraits of women and the less well-known male nudes and histo...[Read more]