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Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

Amory, Dita
Von Bonsdorff, Anna-Maria
Berman, Patricia G.

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 1588398072
ISBN13: 9781588398079
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: Jan 6 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 2.45
Height: 0.91 Width: 8.81 Depth: 11.01
Language: English

A groundbreaking introduction to Scandinavian artist Helene Schjerfbeck through the paintings and drawings that mark her as an exceptional modernist

Reevaluating the role of Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) in the history of modernism, this publication highlights pivotal passages in her sixty-year career--from her training at the Finnish Art Society and remarkable early success to her studies in Paris and St. Ives and eventual return to Finland. There, in relative isolation, she pared down figure paintings and still lifes to near abstraction while introducing greater complexity in her canvases. Long celebrated in Finland and Sweden, Schjerfbeck is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. This book provides fresh insight into her idiosyncratic processes and discusses the series of haunting self-portraits that she painted in her final years, which stand among the twentieth century's most extraordinary self-examinations. Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck introduces an extraordinary Nordic artist who realized her own unique vision with passionate determination, despite personal adversity and her homeland's turbulent political history.

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