Tanja Sinelnikov
Still Life with Blue Coffee Pot
, 1950
Oil on board
21 x 25 inches
Signed and dated
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Provenance
The Artist's Estate
Note: Sinelnikov attended a commercial art school (Reklam Konstskola) in Stockholm and, in the mid 1930s, worked briefly at Nordiska Kompaniet under the Swedish furniture designer Alex Einar Hjort (1888-1959). Sinelnikov then spent a couple of years at the Tekniska Skolan (Technical School) in Stockholm before it became the Konstfack (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design) in 1945.
In 1949, Sinelnikov spent a year in Paris were she studied under André Lhote.