Some help was sought for him from abroad because of the disease in his leg. He was a Viborg-born son of a milliner and fur vendor, who had at a young age become ill with tuberculosis. Since 1941, Samuel Besprosvanni is known in Finnish art history by the name Sam Vanni (1908–1992). Later on, she complemented her studies in Helsinki in the new Free Art School that favoured the French colourist painting. In 1935, Tove was an art student who had still one year left in the drawing school Artists’ Association of Finland. The woman in the portrait is 21-year old Tove Jansson (1914–2001), who nowadays is famous round the world as admired and appreciated cartoonist and creator of the Moomins. The woman has no jewellery on her ears or round her neck. Intensive eyebrows, round lips and fair, hair curled inwards at the ends frame soft the features of her face. Fair-haired, young woman dressed in brown skirt, orange shirt with short sleeves and a 1930s fashion hit, a skull cap that matches her eyes.
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