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LILI ELBE (1883-1931)
Le Mail, Beaugency, France. Oil on linen canvas. 648x552 mm; 25⅝x21¾ inches. Signed 'Einar Wegener', titled and dated in pencil, on the stretcher. 1923.
Provenance: private collection, Denmark.
Exhibited: Georg Ole Haslund, Denmark in 1927. Haslund (1877-1962) was a well-known, Copenhagen based antiques and art dealer.
Le Mail, Beaugency, France originates from when Elbe and her wife Gerda Wegener resided in the artists' colony in Beaugency during the 1920s. There are a number of paintings registered from this period and location, including Le pont sur Loire, Beaugency, 1924 and Beaugency, Tour de Cesar, 1924.
Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, one of the early recipients of gender-affirming surgery, the first known recipient of a uterus transplant in attempt to achieve pregnancy, but died due to the subsequent complications. After transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes, stopped painting, and later adopted the surname Elbe.
