OSSIAN ELGSTRÖM. Mixed media on paper, “When the Little One Came to Earth”, signed, 1941.

Approx. 33 x 48 with frame 40 x 54 cm.
Text on the back:
“From Lapland. During the migrations, it sometimes happens that the women suffer from child distress. Then there is nothing else to do but raise a “half-horned” to shelter from the mountain winter, light a fire and let the elderly women assist the sick. When the baby is born, it is bathed and wrapped, after which it is laid in it by hot stones preheated (words?) and the journey goes on. “O Elgström.