Helene Schjerfbeck [The Fortune-Teller (Woman in Yellow Dress)] 1926

 

◧ Artist: Helene Schjerfbeck (1862 - 1946)                                     
◧ Country: Finland                                    
◧ Title: [The Fortune-Teller (Woman in Yellow Dress)]      
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas   

◧ Museum:  Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
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◧ Country of Stamp Issue: Finland
◧ Date of Issue: March 1, 2006
◧ Face Value: 2 Inland - 0.95 Euro




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She is one of Finland's most-cherished modernist painters. She is most widely known for her realist works, self-portraits and the portraits of other women and children.  

Here are a couple of other portraits she has done in late 1920's;

The Seamstress, Half-Length Portrait (The Working Woman) (1927)

Rosy-Cheeked Girl (1927)
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