Ella Waldenström - A Sewing Woman, 1900
Normaler Preis 27 843 krElla Waldenström (1863–1955) Sweden
A Sewing Woman, 1900
watercolor on paper
signed and dated E.W 23/2 1900
visible image 21 x 12 cm (8 ¼ x 4 ¾ in.)
framed 29 x 20 cm (11 ½ x 7 ¾ in.)
Provenance:
The artist's family.
Essay:
Ella Waldenström was a Swedish artist and educator who belonged to the generation of female artists emerging around the turn of the 20th century, when the art world was gradually opening up to women. Trained at the Stockholm Technical School (Konstfack) and employed as a drawing teacher, she balanced her teaching career with an active artistic practice. Working in the tradition of contemporaries like Anna Sahlström, Ellen Trotzig, Eva Bonnier, and Hanna Hirsch-Pauli, Waldenström drew inspiration from nature and the intimate sphere of home – subjects once considered peripheral but which artists of her circle imbued with new significance.
Waldenström is best known for her delicate floral still lifes, painted with a refined sense of color and light that breathe tranquil poetry. At the same time, her oeuvre also encompasses quiet interior scenes of everyday life – simple domestic moments rendered with the same concentrated presence and attention to detail. In this respect, Waldenström’s gentle, light-filled interiors share a kinship with Carl Larsson’s celebrated watercolors of home: both artists capture a warm, intimate atmosphere and the poetry of quotidian moments, though Waldenström’s approach remains distinctly her own.
The watercolor A Sewing Woman (1900) exemplifies Waldenström’s intimate domestic scenes. This small composition (measuring only 21 × 12 cm) depicts a woman seated in a sunlit room, fully absorbed in her needlework. The figure’s relaxed posture and downward gaze convey quiet focus, as soft daylight and carefully observed details, from the surrounding furnishings to a potted plant in the corner, evoke a sense of warmth and home.
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