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Figures & data
Figure 1. Ivar Arosenius, Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1906, painting, tempera on canvas, 108 × 91 cm, GKM 1769, Gothenburg Museum of Art.
Figure 2. Letter from Ivar Arosenius to Ida (Eva) Arosenius, 1905, Gothenburg University Library.
Figure 3. In the second set, the painting is framed by four photographs of Eva; one of her nurturing her sick husband (upper left), one where she poses with Ivar in Åby (lower left), one showing her reclining in a garden chair at her home in Älvängen (upper right), and a portrait photograph of Eva and Lillan (lower right).
Figure 4. Painting of Eva Arosenius with a flower in her hand, private collection.
Figure 5. Painting of Eva Arosenius with playing cards, ca 1906, watercolours and gouache, 32 × 15.5 cm, private collection.
Figure 6. The fourth set puts the portrait in the context of a narration, including a portrait of Ester Sahlin who were an earlier obsession of the artist (upper left), a sketch of Ivar Arosenius, showing him walking down the street with his bleeding heart and an image of Ester Sahlin, as well as his refusal of both alcohol and women (lower left), a painting of Eva and Lillan depicted as the Madonna and Child, sitting by a table in Älvängen (centre, inserted in the portrait), a photograph of Eva in a hospital bed after having given birth to Ivan, her son in her new marriage (upper right), and Eva together with her grown-up son Ivar and his wife (lower right).
Figure 7. Documentary photograph of the app test. Test persons are using the app in the exhibition, in front of the portrait painting of Eva Arosenius.
