Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Helene Schjerfbeck   [+] The door (1884)
Helene Schjerfbeck Self-portrait in 1895, 37.5 x 30 cm, oil on canvas. Ekenäs Museum. Painting is one of the artist’s earliest self portraits. Schjerfbeck expert Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse, the book is the period when the artist felt that they change in time, both personally and as an artist. The work is inspired by the 1400-century painter Filippo Lippiltä, ​​whose previous work Schjerfbeck visited in 1894, while visiting Florence, Galeria Uffizzi (http://www.ekenas.fi/page.php?&lang=FI&p=kultur/10000024)
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Helene Schjerfbeck Self-portrait, 1915  link                Helene Schjerfbeck , ’ Self Portrait’. link
Helene Schjerfbeck Self-Portrait with Palette I, 1937. Tempera and oil on canvas. Stockholm, Moderna Museet. (© Stockholm, Moderna Museet) link Zelfportret Helene Schjerfbeck by SUPER BOCK link    (autoportrait à la bouche noire) link
Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862-1946 Self portrait with black mouth, 1939, 39.5 x 28 cm, Oil on Canvas, Didrichsens Konstmuseum, Helsinki Photo: Jussi Pakkala link There is a large collection of works by Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) in the Didrchsen Art Museum. She has become famous for her self portraits just like Rembrandt,Vincent van Gogh, Albrecht Dürer and Frida Kahlo. She has at least painted 36 self portraits during har life and the most intensive period was 1939-45 when she was already in her eighties. “Self Portrait with Black Mouth” is one of the last interpretations where she is still masked. Soon after that she is unmasking herself and starts to show her skull. The same year that the Winter War broke out 1939 she painted this portrait that is full of distress and panic. Her two sided face is depicted palewhite and the assymetrical eyes reflect a frightened and frozen artist. By minimizing physical plasticity she emphasizes the spirit and the soul. This is though a beautifully coloured painting in warm rose colours that she has stroken on with a palett knife.(http://www.didrichsenmuseum.fi/eng/holdings.php) 1944 Self-Portrait with Red Spot     link 1945                        Helene Schjerfbeck, Self-Portrait ‘An old painter’, 1945. Oil on canvas. Helsinki, private collection. link Helene Schjerfbeck, Green Self Portrait “Light and Shadows”, 1945, oil on canvas, 36x32 cm link
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Schjerfbeck, Helene Corn Poppies, n. 1942
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