Karen (Karen von Blixen Fineke, aka: Isak Dinesen)

 

Kay Christensen

  1899 - 1981 (biography)

1938  

2 color lithograph 

27 7/8 x 22" image 

pencil, lower right; in stone lower right image 

40 impressions 

pencil, lower margin: "Litografi trykt i Haand presse: 40 Exemplars - Karen - Kay C. 1938"; titled and dated in upper left image. 

 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

19114 

$1,000.00 

This large 2 color lithograph by Danish painter/printmaker Kay Wilhelm Louis Christensen is a portrait of Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen Fineke (1885-1962) who wrote her most famous novel "Out of Africa" using the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. In 1955 Christensen also painted a portrait of Dinesen which is in the Royal Library of the National Library of Denmark.