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LOUISA MATTHIASDOTTIR Model in a Butterfly Chair.
Oil on canvas board, circa 1960. 202x252 mm; 8x10 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: The artist Nell Blaine, New York; Dilys Evans, New York; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection, New Mexico.
Matthiasdottir (1917-2000) was born in Reykjavik, Iceland and studied in Copenhagen and Paris before moving to New York in 1942. She likely met Nell Blaine while studying with Hans Hoffman alongside Larry Rivers, Robert De Niro, Sr. and Jane Freilicher. Jane Street Gallery hosted her first solo exhibition in 1948. During the 1960s she honed her characteristic manner of rendering landscapes, figures and interior scenes with broad bands of color and brushstrokes, paring the forms down to their elemental shapes. Her works are found in the collections of Reykjavík Municipal Art Museum, Kjarvalstaðir, Iceland, the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine.
