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Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange
French, 1877–1958
Balcon Sur la Mer
Oil on board
27 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.

Inventory Number: Art S218
1900-1949 European Landscape Marine Period 1900-1949 Seascape Still Life Impressionist/Post Impressionist

See Artist Bio below.


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 are Garden 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, 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.

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