Linx Stafne-Pfisterer

"Colour orgies [ ] slung up on the walls." This was just one of many caustic remarks aimed at Thorvald Hellesen's first and last exhibition in Norway, held in 1919. He would never again exhibit in his native country, where he was gradually forgotten. In Paris, Hellesen became part of the Cubist circle in Montparnasse. Here he got to know...