Lilla Hellesen

Norwegian painter Lilla Hellesen produced drawings and lithographs, characterized by romantic, dreamy nature moods. Her paintings are found in many Norwegian and foreign collections. In her portraits, mostly of children, she developed an almost photographic realism. She studied in Oslo at the Norwegian School of Crafts and Art Industry and the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts and made her début at the Paris Salon in 1927. Later, she also exhibited in Brussels, London and New York. From 1952 she lived partly in Sweden.

Her mother was the well-known theatre actress Marie Mejlænder-Hellesen (1866-1946). Dans på isen (Dancing on Ice) was a lithograph in an edition of 90 copies. The sheet measured approximately 40 x 50 cm, and the motif 32 x 41 cm.