"Who painted mostly in egg tempera, is best known for ""Christina's World"", and whose common subject was Helga Testorf?"
The Helga Pictures The Helga Pictures The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 240 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c. 1933 or c. 1939) created by Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) between 1971 and 1985. Helga Testorf was a neighbor of Wyeth's in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and over the course of fifteen years posed for Wyeth indoors and out of doors, nude and clothed, in attitudes that reminded writers of figures painted by Botticelli and Édouard Manet. To John Updike, her body "is what Winslow Homer's maidens would have looked like beneath their calico." Born in Germany, Helga entered
The Helga Pictures be viewed by some people as "a traumatic event for the museum." The curator, Neil Harris, labeled the show “the most polarizing National Gallery exhibition of the late 1980s,” himself admitting concern over "the voyeuristic aura of the Helga exhibition." The tour was criticized after the fact because, after it ended, the pictures' owner sold his entire cache to a Japanese company, a transaction characterized by Christopher Benfey as "crass." Tempera on panel: Drybrush and/or watercolor on paper: The Helga Pictures The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 240 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born