Rippilapsi or Hartaus (the Confirmation Candidate or Devotions)

Details

Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862-1946)
Rippilapsi or Hartaus (the Confirmation Candidate or Devotions)
signed 'H Schjerfbeck' (lower right)
lithograph, 1938-39, on stone-coloured laid paper, second (final) state without the background colour, a good impression, with the ink stamp 'Provtryck' ('Artist's proof') o the reverse
Image: 19 x 13 in. (490 x 335 mm.); Sheet: 27½ x 19½ in. (698 x 497 mm.)

Literature

Exh. cat., Helene Schjerfbeck, Helsinki, The Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, 1992, p. 263, no. 429.

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Lot Essay

The Confirmation candidate (Devotions) is based on a composition from 1891 entitled Before Confirmation (Ahtela 231). Two versions were produced in 1938-1939; the first in an edition of fifty and the second in an edition of 70. The presence of the stamp 'Provtryck' on the reverse suggests that the present impression is a proof aside from this second edition.

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