Ovi Art eBooks

Helene Schjerfbeck spent nearly seven decades painting, yet her fiercest work began only when the world stopped looking. For much of the twentieth century, she was remembered, when remembered at all, as a Finnish painter of polite portraits and Nordic still lifes. But the true Schjerfbeck, the one who matters now, emerged from a pact with darkness. She became a master of silence as subject, transforming the wartime years in isolation into fuel for her most desolate palette. While others sought