Sigrid Af Forselles, Vase, ca 1900, © Yann Girault
Sigrid Af Forselles, Vase, Detail, ca 1900, © Arnaud Carpentier - Didier Hermann
Sigrid Af Forselles, Vase, Side, ca 1900, © Yann Girault
Sigrid Af Forselles, Vase, Detail, ca 1900, © Yann Girault
Sigrid Af Forselles
Unique piece
Further images
Forselles presented two decorated urns at the 1900 Woman’s Exhibition in London and won a medal for them. Helena Westermarck tells us that one of them was ‘The Voyage of Mankind’, but the subject of the second urn is not known. Given the fact that the Porvoo Museum example was made in 1905, and assuming that the four listed below were considered by Forselles to be her most important pieces, it is possible that ‘Jacob’s Dream’ was in fact the second one presented at
the London Woman’s Exhibition in 1900. Ours is also the only known urn to be undated. This could indicate it may have been among her early creations and therefore could have been shownin 1900
Provenance
Hôtel des Ventes Galerie Moderne, Brussels, 27th February 2018, lot 469 - Trebosc + Van Lelyveld Gallery, Paris, until 2023.