Sigrid Hjertén

Girl Reading, 1918

A young woman, depicted in profile, sits on the beach in a black one-piece swimsuit, relaxing as she reads a book. Despite her seated posture, there is something dynamic about her form: from the bent knees to the narrow neck to her head leaning over the book, her body almost constitutes a circle. The portion of the scene that the artist has chosen to depict is so small that the surrounding space creates its lively effect as a field of colour rather than the scene of the action. The pink towel ca...

Signatur: HJERTÉN, unten rechts, geritzt

Familienbesitz der Künstlerin (bis 2014); MKdW (2014).
Sigrid och Isaac. Modernismens pionjärer, Ausst.-Kat. Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping 2002, Kat. 29.
[Weiterführende Literatur] Sigrid Hjertén. Wegbereiterin des schwedischen Expressionismus, Ausst.-Kat. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus / Kunstbau München, hrsg. von Katarina Borgh Bertorp, Stockholm 1999.

Sigrid Hjertén (1885 - 1948)

Girl Reading

1918

Oil on canvas

22 x 33 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 HJE 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2014

Not on display