Paintings
Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange
French, 1877–1958Balcon Sur la Mer
Oil on board27 ½ in. by 35 ½ in. W/frame 35 ½ in. by 43 ½ in.
Signed ‘J. Selmersheim-Desgrange’ (lower right)
Provenance:
Private Collection, San Francisco Ca.
Alexander Avenard Collection
Le Trianon Fine Art & Antiques, Sheffield, MA.
See Artist Bio below.
Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange
French, 1877–1958Jeanne 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.