Birgit Hygrell, Art Deco Portrait Of A Woman nature has been inspired by the

has been inspired by the great landscape painters of the 19th-century and we particularly love the tall trees that draw your eye upwards towards the heavens

This autumnal landscape by Scandinavian painter

and Lord Spencer

Edgar Degas often wore brightly coloured cravats

Johan Larentius Carolinus Leksell (1874-1932)

Birgit Hygrell, Art Deco Portrait Of A Woman nature has been inspired by theA gentle early 20th century portrait of a woman by Swedish painter, Birgit Hygrell (1903 1972). Hygrell was a versatile and widely exhibited painter who studied in Gothenburg and later at the Stockholm School of Art. This particular piece was created just two years after she left Stockholm at the age of 24. Its inscribed in the lower left Till Tant Ester, which translates as To Aunt Ester. Could it be a self portrait perhaps? Or is it Aunt Ester