Yrjö Saarinen

• Yrjö Saarinen : Lepohetki, 1942, 130,5x162,5, oil, canvas (A IV 3005) [© The Holders of Copyrights] (89.3 kB)

Yrjö Saarinen's (1899-1958) art also followed its own defiantly lonely course, unconcerned by what the mainstreams of art favoured or avoided. Neither was he really aware of them. Yrjö Saarinen had never attended art schools, had never been abroad. He possesed no books on art and belonged to no art grouping. He was not interested by the doings of other people and a sign painter's trade guaranteed him some kind of a livelihood.

Yrjö Saarinen : Lepohetki