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7-8 Nov. 2024 Helene Schjerfbeck
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Frauenportrait mit Bleistift. Sie schaut nach links und hat hochgebundene Haare und hat eine Bluse mit Kragen an.
November 7, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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Girl with a Beret, (1935)
July 25, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck, Tapestry (extract), oil on canvas, 1914-17 #heleneschjerfbeck
February 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Spotted today while museum hopping. Love this unfinished Helene Schjerfbeck self-portrait from 1921, found on the backside of another painting -- the Riihimäki art museum displayed both sides! #artsky #HeleneSchjerfbeck
Helene Schjerfbeck self-portrait on the backside of a painting
June 25, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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The Picture Book (1946).
June 18, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Dancing Shoes (1882)
March 26, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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#Art #HeleneSchjerfbeck
July 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
eevisritu.bsky.social
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September 27, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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'Mazás vermellas'
de Helene Schjerfbeck

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August 16, 2026 at 7:01 AM
tomfishpaw.bsky.social
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In a Café, (1940)
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
tomfishpaw.bsky.social
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Marta dansande (Svart kjol) (1917)
June 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Girl on a Red Sofa, (1882)
February 12, 2026 at 11:19 PM
tomfishpaw.bsky.social
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The Family Heirloom
April 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
eevisritu.bsky.social
☆ Helene S. ☆
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September 26, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Helene Schjerfbeck - Finnish painter

The Circus Girl, 1916.

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March 14, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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Helene Schjerfbeck #heleneschjerfbeck
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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In a Café, (1940)
April 16, 2026 at 2:26 AM
tomfishpaw.bsky.social
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"The Spring Madonna" (1942)
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Johan Lupander, (1877)
May 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Also spotted this Helene Schjerfbeck painting at ANOTHER museum, in Hyvinkää. Part of their permanent collection. #ArtSky #HeleneSchjerfbeck
Helene Schjerfbeck painting of a longhaired young woman sitting casually on a beach, her hands hanging low in sync with her hair
June 25, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Portrait of Helena Westermarck (1884)
April 20, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Como ejercicio de retrato estoy copiando un autorretrato de la artista finlandesa Helene Schjerfbeck. Todavía le falta trabajo, pero poco a poco.

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April 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Churchgoers (Easter Morning), 1895-1900, by #HeleneSchjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862-1946). Held in the Finnish National Gallery Collection / Ateneum Art Museum, kokoelma.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/50... #artherstory #womenartists #HappyEaster
A painting in subdued colors of 3 women at about half length, and at far left the head of a child standing in front of them. Everyone wears head coverings. The two women at right wear black or mostly black, and their hands are clasped in front of them.
April 5, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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“Ompelijatar (Työläisnainen)” (The Seamstress) by Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish) - Oil on canvas / 1905 - Ateneumin taidemuseo, Kansallisgalleria (Helsinki, Finland) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #Ateneum #FinnishArt #artText #art #HeleneSchjerfbeck #Schjerfbeck #WomenPaintingWomen
A ghostly-pale woman sits in left profile in a wooden rocking chair, her body angled slightly forward. Her dark hair is cut into a smooth bob, and her eyes are lowered, giving the sense of inward focus rather than display. She wears a high-necked black dress, so her pale hands loosely clasped at her lap become a focus point. The chair’s reddish-brown rails and runners draw a simple diagonal across the canvas, while the plain background is a flat, green-grey wall and floorboard line with no distracting detail. Everything is hushed like softened edges, muted color, and a stillness that reads as rest, fatigue, or private thought. Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck’s title of “seamstress, working woman” frames this sitter through a labor lens, but the painting refuses the usual markers of “industry.” Instead of needle and cloth, we are given posture with her hands folded, shoulders rounded, breath held, and time suspended between tasks. The rocking chair suggests a rhythm of repetitive work and domestic life, but here it becomes a cradle for recovery, a place where a worker can exist without being watched or assessed. Paint is handled with restraint, compressing the figure into a near-silhouette so that dignity lives in the smallest signals like the clean line of her nose, the soft pressure of fingers, and her calm, closed eyes. In 1905, Schjerfbeck was shaping the pared-down modernism that would become her signature. After ill health forced her to leave teaching, she was living in Hyvinkää with her mother and painting portraits of schoolgirls, neighbors, and women workers … subjects often overlooked in official portraiture. Here, “working-class” is not a stereotype but an interior state as the psychological cost of constant usefulness or the right to quiet. Today, the painting can be seen as both compassionate and radical as it asks us to honor labor by honoring the person who labors, granting her privacy, complexity, and a moment that belongs entirely to herself.
December 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM