artist: Katri Tätilä (Finnish 1905-1980)
medium: oil on canvas laid on board
dimensions: 35 x 11 cm canvas size / 54 1/2 x 33 1/2 cm framed size (approx)
signed and dated 1962
presented in its original frame with new woven cloth mat
AU $2165 (approx US $1380 / 1310 EUROS / 212,000 yen / 1085 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Katri Tätilä from Turku, Finland was one of the most important Finnish women artists of the post-World War II period. In addition to her painting and graphic work, she produced large public artworks and used her skills as a designer in the ceramics department of the Kupittaa Saviosake company. Examples of her work are held in collection of the Ateneum Art Museum 0 the Finnish National Gallery Collection.