1910 (ca.), Marianne Werefkin, By the Fireside -- Royal Academy of Arts (London) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Werefkin held a salon at her home in Munich which became a hub for avant-garde artists and patrons. Some scholars have suggested that this scene may include a self-portrait. The figure in the foreground recalls writer Elizabeth Erdmann-Macke's description of meeting Werefkin: 'Whenever she waxed passionate about something' she 'began gesticulating threateningly... she was an exceptionally strong, spirited personality full of revolutionary spirit against all things timid and lukewarm.'
1910 (ca.), Marianne Werefkin, By the Fireside -- Royal Academy of Arts (London) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Werefkin held a salon at her home in Munich which became a hub for avant-garde artists and patrons. Some scholars have suggested that this scene may include a self-portrait. The figure in the foreground recalls writer Elizabeth Erdmann-Macke's description of meeting Werefkin: 'Whenever she waxed passionate about something' she 'began gesticulating threateningly... she was an exceptionally strong, spirited personality full of revolutionary spirit against all things timid and lukewarm.'