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...
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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.