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Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange
French, 1877–1958
Still Life on a Windowsill
Oil on canvas
28 ¾ by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 38 ¼ by 45 ½ in
Signed lower right

Inventory Number: 01646
1950-present European Marine Period 1900-1949 Still Life Modernist

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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