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Oil on canvas by Louis BERTHOMME SAINT-ANDRE, France, 1940s. Young Red-haired Woman. with frame: 74x63 cm - 29.1x24.8 inches ; without frame: 61x50 cm - 24x19.7 inches. Format 12F. Signed lower left "Berthomme St André" (see photo). Slight horizontal stretcher mark. The condition is very good. In its original Montparnasse wooden frame.
Louis Berthommé Saint-André is a figurative painter, fresco painter, decorator, illustrator, engraver, ceramist and French lithographer born in 1905. He comes from rural and commercial France: his father ran a wine and grocery business. In his youth, Louis Berthommé Saint-André was injured by a kick, which left him with a stiff leg, preventing him from driving, among other things. The family left Oise to settle in Saintes, where the artist studied at La Recouvrance. He entered as a student architect with Georges Naud, responsible for the historical monuments of Charente then, in 1921, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris.
Louis Berthommé Saint-André is one of the great representatives of French figurative painting in the 20th century. He was trained at the School of Fine Arts by two very old masters who died during his training: Fernand Cormon (1845-1924) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). He retains from their training the taste for well-learned techniques, but from his first works, he is part of modernity. His constructions show decomposed forms inspired by Cézanne, while maintaining a keen sense of rigor. He never strayed from realism, but his very colorful, sometimes incisive palette and his freedom in representation gave his painting a bite and an acidity that placed Louis Berthommé Saint-André among the great talents of his time.
Silver medal at the Salon of French Artists where he exhibited from 1924 to 1929, he won the Abd-el-Tif Prize in 1925 and was then the youngest resident of the villa in Algiers. Friend of Jean Launois, in addition to his recognized portraits, he painted Algiers and the Kasbah. His studies of women recall those of Eugène Delacroix, but if his luminous inspiration is due to the Algerian sun, his touch is more Cézanne than purely orientalist. He left Algeria in 1928, to return there in 1931.
Before the war, Berthommé Saint-André exhibited regularly in all the major Salons: from 1928 at the Salon d'Automne, at the Salon des Beaux-Arts (1934 to 1936) at the Salon des Tuileries since 1935. His inspiration is close to surrealism .
During the Occupation, he became very "fauve", in reaction to the darkness of the war. He joined the Resistance, and collaborated with Vaincre (Resistance newspaper).
After the war, he developed a style close to poetic reality (Brianchon, Legueult, Oudot, Terechkovitch, Cavaillès. Caillard, Limouse, and Planson), without however ever being part of the group so called. He is present at the Salon Comparaison, at the Salon of painters Witnesses of our time, is president of the Salon of drawing and water-based painting. He has exhibited solo internationally, in Europe, the USA and Japan in particular. In 1977, he received just before his death, the grand prize of Painters Witnesses of their Time.
He died on October 1, 1977 in Paris.
Bibliography
- Michel Droit. Berthommé Saint-André. Éditions de la revue moderne, 1981.
Wall frescoes
Entrance to the Direction, National School of Fine Arts, Paris
Lycée Charlemagne, Paris, Notre-Dame and the banks of the Seine, 1952
Staircase of the Faculty of Poitiers
Personal exhibitions
Villa Abd-el-Tif, Alger, 1922.
Galerie Armand Drouant, Paris, 1928
Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris, 1937
Galerie Barreiro, Paris, 1937
Galerie Colinne, Oran, 1950
Musée des beaux-arts, Poitiers, 1952
Galerie Chardin, Paris, octobre 1958
Collective exhibitions
Salon des artistes français, Paris, de 1924 à 1929
Artistes algériens et orientalistes, Alger, 1927
Salon d'automne, Paris, à partir de 1928
Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts, Paris, 1934, 1935, 1936
Salon des Tuileries, Paris, à partir de 1935
Bimillénaire de Paris - Comité Montparnasse - Exposition de peintres et sculpteurs de l'École de Paris, La Coupole, Paris, juin-juillet 1951
Salon des peintres témoins de leur temps, 1956, 1976 (toile présentée : Les ostréiculteurs)7, 1977 (toile présentée :Fête dans la clairière)
Salon Comparaisons, Paris, à partir de 1956
Première exposition internationale des arts de Téhéran, Centre des expositions internationales, Téhéran, décembre 1974 - janvier 1975
- Creator:Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre (1905-1977, French)
- Dimensions:Height: 29.14 in (74 cm)Width: 24.81 in (63 cm)Depth: 1.97 in (5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Saint Amans des cots, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1088213821762
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