Sigrid Hjertén- one of the most prominent
Sigrid Hjertén is reckoned by many
experts as one of the most prominent of the artists who introduced
modern art in Sweden in the nineteen tens. A newly discovered picture,
Kvinna i ršd interišr ("Woman in red indoor picture"), was sold
at Bukowski's to a price of 2,45 million Swedish crowns.
Contemporary critics often had a negative
attitude
 But
like so many other artists Hjertén was often fighting an
uphill battle during her life. Most contemporary critics had a negative
and even scornful attitude towards her works of art, and many of
them wrote deeply offensive reviews. Among other things her paintings
were called idiocy, humbug, horrors and products of handicap.
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