Pears - Helene Schjerfbeck

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Having posted images of our Alvar Aalto tea trolleys with pears used

as kind of props (see the photos  here and here) my mind turned to

depictions of pears in Helene Schjerfbeck's still lifes that I adore.

See here for my previous post on Schjerfbeck's self portraits.

From Wikipedia:

Helene Schjerfbeck (July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish painter. She is most widely known for her realist works and self-portraits, and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically. Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of late-19th-century academic realism…it ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance.(Roberta Smith, New York Times, November 27th 1992)

Helene Schjerfbeck, Three Pears on a Vase
1945, oil on canvas, 23 x 31.5 cm

Helene Schjerfbeck, Lily of the Valley in a Blue Vase II
1929, oil on canvas, 35 x 22 cm

Helene Schjerfbeck, Untitled
1937, oil on canvas, 49 x 60 cm

Helene Schjerfbeck, Green Still Life
1930, oil on canvas, 33.5 x 50 cm

Helene Schjerfbeck, Green Still Life Three Pears on a Vase
1925-26, oil on canvas, 27.5 x 27.5 cm

Helene Schjerfbeck, Green Self Portrait "Light and Shadows"
1945, oil on canvas, 36 x 32 cm