{"product_id":"seeing-silence-the-paintings-of-helene-schjerfbeck","title":"Seeing Silence: The Paintings Of Helene Schjerfbeck","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Groundbreaking Introduction To Scandinavian Artist Helene Schjerfbeck Through The Paintings And Drawings That Mark Her As An Exceptional Modernistreevaluating The Role Of Finnish Painter Helene Schjerfbeck (18621946) In The History Of Modernism, This Publication Highlights Pivotal Passages In Her SixtyYear CareerFrom Her Training At The Finnish Art Society And Remarkable Early Success To Her Studies In Paris And St. Ives And Eventual Return To Finland. There, In Relative Isolation, She Pared Down Figure Paintings And Still Lifes To Near Abstraction While Introducing Greater Complexity In Her Canvases. Long Celebrated In Finland And Sweden, Schjerfbeck Is Relatively Unknown To The Rest Of The World. This Book Provides Fresh Insight Into Her Idiosyncratic Processes And Discusses The Series Of Haunting SelfPortraits That She Painted In Her Final Years, Which Stand Among The Twentieth CenturyS Most Extraordinary SelfExaminations. Seeing Silence: The Paintings Of Helene Schjerfbeck Introduces An Extraordinary Nordic Artist Who Realized Her Own Unique Vision With Passionate Determination, Despite Personal Adversity And Her HomelandS Turbulent Political History.Published By The Metropolitan Museum Of Art\/Distributed By Yale University Pressexhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York(December 5, 2025April 5, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Museum Of Art New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47953234919669,"sku":"DADAX1588398072","price":55.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/61g88gL3tyL.jpg?v=1775489075","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/seeing-silence-the-paintings-of-helene-schjerfbeck","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}