Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved and feels very honest to

and feels very honest to me

Kulle became fascinated with Swedish folk culture

I copied it and tried to emulate his terrifying and dynamic style

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This painting is currently with our framers so will be ready to ship in approximately three weeks' time

Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved and feels very honest toSomehow portraits of women by women artists of the early twentieth century have a certain historical frisson. When this was painted in 1938, the Great War had been over for two decades and the societal changes it wrought had led to political and social freedoms that would have been unthinkable to many women at the turn of the century. Elsa would have known a world of corsets and stays in 1880s Boston, a lifetime away from the simple black evening