Artists

Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange

French, 1877–1958

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.”

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

Selmersheim-Desgrange, raised in a family of artists and architects, became an art student ofPaul Signacand 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.