Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange

Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange (1877–1958) was a French neo-impressionist painter who used the art technique of pointillism with her main themes of flowers and gardens. Her painting, Garden at La Lune, Saint-Tropez (1909), shows her signature use of “high-key colors and block-like strokes.”[1]

Garden at La Hune Saint-Tropez

Some of her oil on canvas works are Garden at La Hune, Saint Tropez (1909) (Image on Right), The Flowers, In the Garden (1909), Table blanche, vue sur Saint-Tropez (c. 1930), The Garden, Afternoon Tea, Flowers in the Window, and Bouquet of Flowers.

Selmersheim-Desgrange, raised in a family of artists and architects, became an art student of Paul Signac and later, in 1910, his companion. At the time, Signac was married to Bertha (Robles), and Selmersheim-Desgrange was married to Pierre Desgrange with whom she had three children. In September 1912, Signac and Selmersheim-Desgrange moved to a rented villa in Cap d’Antibes, France and in October 1912 she gave birth to their daughter Ginnette Laurie Anaiis.[2][3][4][5]

In July 1961, Selmersheim-Desgrange’s painting, The Flowers, was one of 57 modern art paintings stolen from the Annonciade Museum of Modern Art in Saint-Tropez, France.[6]

References
  1. Indianapolis Museum of Art. The Holliday Collection, Accession Number: 79.290
  2. Meisler, S., (2001, September 20). Points of View: Artist Signac Steps Out of the Shadow of his Celebrated Colleague, Pointilist Georges Seurat, to Star in a New Exhibition at the MET. Smithsonian Magazine.
  3. Paul Signac. (2015). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 12:56, May 07, 2015 from http://www.biography.com/people/paul-signac-21378521 Archived 2015-05-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. Ferret-Bocquillon, M., Sistel, A., Leighton, J., & Stein, S. (2001). Signac 1863-1935. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ISBN 0-87099-998-2.
  5. Hardouin-Fugier, E., Grafe, E. (1989). The Dictionary. In Mitchell, P (Eds.). The Flower Painters (p. 305). North Dighton, MA: JG Press. ISBN 1-57215-215-X. Page 305 indicates that a more comprehensive bibliography may exist from the 1982 exhibit at the Saint Tropez, Musee de l’Annonciade.
  6. 57 Paintings Stolen on French Rivera. (1961, July 15). The New York Times, p. 1
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