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Woman Artist - Self-Portraits - Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946)

. Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) 1890 Photo Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) painted at least 36 self-portraits throughout her career. The older she became, the more isolated she became. Her later portraits reveal a sort of visual confrontational self-analysis. Between 1939 & 1945, not long before her death, she produced her most impressive series of self-portraits, in which she records her own physical deterioration with shocking honesty. Her facial features become increasingly hollow, until…

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