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 Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Self-portrait in a fresco. This self-portrait showing the artist as if in a partly crumbling fresco prefigures his later frescoes and wall-paintings in many respects. In 1900 Gallen-Kallela painted his first frescoes for the Finnish pavilion at the Paris World Fair, which unfortunately could not be saved when the exposition was dismantled. The frescoes which Gallen-Kallela painted for the Jusélius mausoleum in Pori, Western Finland, in 1901-1903, were later destroyed in a fire. |     
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