Catalog
0 Euro - Helene Schjerfbeck
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir (LECB) |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette reproduces Helene Schjerfbeck's celebrated oil painting 'The Convalescent' (1888), rendered in warm tonal hues across the face of the note. The artist's name and life dates 'HELENE SCHJERFBECK 1862–1946' appear in bold lettering above the image, with the Finnish title 'TOIPILAS' and the work's date inscribed below. The denomination '0 EURO' and the 'EUROSOUVENIR' designation, together with the issuer reference 'R. FAILLE C.E.O. LECB' and series identifier '2022-2', complete the typographical layout. |
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| Obverse lettering | HELENE SCHJERFBECK 1862–1946 TOIPILAS EUROSOUVENIR 2022-2 0 The Convalescent 1888 0 EURO SOUVENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. LECB |
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Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) spent much of her career in deliberate isolation, first in the Finnish countryside, later in Hyvinkää, producing a body of self-portraits that grew progressively more stripped down and psychologically intense as she aged. She was barely known outside Finland during her lifetime. The 0 Euro souvenir format, whatever one thinks of its commercial logic, has done more to circulate her name internationally than decades of museum catalogues managed.
Oberthur Fiduciaire printed this under the LECB licensing scheme that standardized the series across hundreds of European cultural issuers from roughly 2015 onward.