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![Amélie Lundahl - A Girl in the Lush Forest [early 1880s]](http://c5.staticflickr.com/1/313/31446021380_9894e5ce15_b.jpg)
The work is not dated, but may have come into being either in the summer of 1882, when the artist stayed at the family manor of her closest artist colleague Maria Wiik at Botby (Puotila) near Helsinki, or during her next visit to Finland in summer 1885. Financial pressures forced her relocation to Stockholm in the following autumn, and she continued working in Sweden for the rest of the decade. This painting was created with a light and airy touch, with brushwork alluding to the latest impulses from France. Its approach and colours are liberated but controlled, with the dark tree trunks giving posture to the work, while the mottled colours of the lake behind the trees form a bright background to the foliage. The figure of a girl leaning against a tree and lost in thought is a recurring motif in a handful of works by Lundahl from the early to mid-1880s. She was fascinated in general with depicting young women, even later preferring to pose her models in a woodland setting.
[Bukowski’s Auctions, Helsinki - Oil on panel, 31 x 26 cm]
