Women by Helene Schjerfbeck

It is the same old story over again: a female artist, with a vast number of works to her name, successful during her lifetime, but since largely forgotten to the world at large (albeit still a known name in her native Finland). Her male contemporaries, whose influence is visible in her work (but would this have been a reciprocal relationship?), remain, of course, well known even outside the core of the art world. As deserving as the many other “rediscovered” women being brought out of the closet and put back into the spotlight, Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) has been chosen to represent all those women with immense talent that history (ancient, contemporary and modern) has unreasonably consigned to the oblivion of the soul.
Our exhibition is a tribute to her art and her innate gift.