Elin Danielson-Gambogi
A PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN.
Sign. Oil on canvas, 60x50 cm.
Provenance
Sold at Bukowskis International Spring Auction, 24.4.1994.
Literature
See p. 60 model study in Konttinen-Savojärvi, 1995.
More information
In the 1880s Elin Danielson studied at Académie Colarossi in Paris and visited Brittany, where she was inspired by the lifestyle and scenery. The model in the painting appears in several sketches to use in her portrayals of Britons.
Artist
Elin Danielson-Gambogi was a Finnish-Swedish artist born in Norrmark, Finnland. She studied at the Finnish Art Society's Drawing School in Helsinki, under Carl Eneas Sjöström, Hjalmar Munsterhjelm, in Adolf von Beckers private art school and in Paris as Académie Colarossi, and with Auguste Rodin. Danielson-Gambogi had been taught the art of classic drawing, landscape painting, perspective painting, porcelain painting, and was even for a period active in the porcelain factory Arabia. She was part of the so-called Önningeby colony, whose members consisted of Victor Westerholm, Fredrik Ahlstedt, J.A.G Acke and Nina Ahlstedt. Daniel-Gambogi was controversial, her portraits of women glurred boundaries as they showed every day, lightly dressed women. Her art is derivative of naturalism and national romanticism, and she favours a light colour pallet to depict the Mediterranean in a manner which calls upon impressionistic and academic painting styles.
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