Elsa Thoresen
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"Verdenslyset"
Signed E Thoresen and dated -38. Canvas 65.5 x 68 cm.
Saleroom notice
No Artist's Resale Right as stated in the printed catalog.
Provenance
Advokat Luterkort's collection.
Private collection, Helsingborg.
Private collection, Stockholm.
More information
Elsa Thoresen and her husband, the artist Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, both members of the Danish Surrealist Group, traveled to Paris in 1938. There, Thoresen exhibited two artworks: Verdenslyset [World Light, 1937] and Jeb ved det ikke [I Don't Know, 1937]. Verdenslyset is reminiscent of the auction's motif from 1938 with the same title.
Read more here: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/magazine/trois-artistes-femmes-surrealistes-scandinaves-a-paris/