Einar Wegener, Gerda at Beaugency, 1924 (173)
which in a Renaissance work would have had a given symbolic value. It is as if this particular borrowing of the formal language of a bygone time elevates the scenario beyond time and place and gives it the character of the eternal. The works take on a special meaning, showing both Gerda’s and the couple’s love of Italy, art, beauty and each other .
Incidentally Einar Wegener too painted a picture, Capri from ca. 1929, where we can see Gerda and Lili in the distance with their dog on Capri. This is one of the few cases where Einar has painted Lili. The picture is in bright pastel colours, and the two women appear almost to be giddy girlfriends who turn their bodies so that hips and bosoms, apparently at random, are emphasized in a typically flirting attitude. 21
12 Continued risky operations to transform himself into a coquettish girl.” (Rudolph Tegner, Mod lyset – arbejder, oplevelser og erindringer, Copenhagen: Palle Fogtdal, 1991, 239).