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Brita Barnekow (b. Copenhagen 1868, d. Frederikshavn 1936)

“En lille Mandolinspillerske”. A young woman playing mandolin. Signed with monogram and dated 1913. Oil on canvas. 67×54 cm.

Brita Barnekow was a student of the painters Marie Vilhelmine Bang (in 1883–85) and Frants Henningsen (in 1885–87). In the years 1889–93, she studied at the newly established Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Art for Women (Kunstakademiets Kunstskole for Kvinder), from which she did not pass, but received praise and a scholarship. She later traveled to Paris, where she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She also travelled to London and Italy. She mainly worked with portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings, and she also made a few coloured woodcuts. Barnekow exhibited for many years at the Spring Exhibition at Charlottenborg and several times at the Artists’ Autumn Exhibition, and she also participated in the Women’s Exhibition (Kvindernes Udstilling fra Fortid og Nutid) in 1895 and the Women Artists’ Retrospective Exhibition (Kvindelige Kunstneres Retrospektive Udstilling) in 1920 in Copenhagen.

Exhibited: Charlottenborg 1914 no. 34.

Provenance: Provenance: The artist, thence by descent in her family.

Condition

A few pinholes in the edges. Minor crackles and a few minimal peelings.

Additional Remarks

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Auction

Paintings, furniture and varia, 25 October 2021

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