The exhibition, entitled Paradise, at the Helsinki Art Museum focuses for the first time on the murals and frescoes Jansson was commissioned to paint on the walls of factory canteens, hospitals, nurseries and even churches long before Moominmania conquered the world.
By the end of her life, Tove was most famous as a writer, said the artist and author's niece, Sophia Jansson, now president of the board of the company that manages her copyright. But she always saw herself first and foremost [as] a painter.
In recent years, her oil paintings have been the subject of increasing interest to collectors, with one still life fetching 383,800 (320,000) at an auction in Helsinki in 2023. Yet Jansson's public work has long been overlooked.
Jansson, who died in 2001, was a modern Renaissance woman who produced books, plays, set designs, puppets and songs.
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