Jacques Martin-Ferrières

Still Life with a Bouquet of Dahlias in a Vase & Compote of Grapes on a Table

Circa 1955

Jacques Martin-Ferrières Nature morte au bouquet d’animones (Still life with anemones, oranges, lemons, bananas and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Scotch) Framed Dimensions: 35 x 28.5 inches Signed: Lower Left Provenance: Chantal Dalmais, Paris Jean Claude Gauteur, Zurich, 1986 Piguet Hotel des Ventes, Geneva, 2021 Private Collection To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne on the artist in preparation by Marie-Anne Destrebecq. Jacques Martin-Ferrières was born on August 6, 1893 in Saint-Paul...

Bernard de Hoog was born in Amsterdam in 1866. He studied under J.F. Hulk and J.C. van Essen at the Quellinus School in Amsterdam. Mainly a genre and portrait painter, he occupies a distinguished place among the masters of Dutch modernism. He was associated with The Hague School, primarily a movement of realism, a reaction against Romanticism. He lived and worked in Laren, Haarlem, Bussum, and The Hague enjoying much commercial success. His paintings were readily exported to the United State, Canada, and England. De Hoog advocated the simple country life and produced many endearing interior scenes inspired by compassion for the impoverished existence of the Dutch peasantry. Set within a quiet domestic interior space, our painting catches a meditative moment of a woman in the midst of her sewing. A large window illuminates this intimate interior. de Hoog’s delicate brushwork captures the sunlight reflected in the woman’s red dress...

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Christian-Henri Roullier was born in Lyon, France, in 1845, and was an infant when his parents arrived in gold-rush San Francisco. After much difficulty, Roullier senior found employment at the White House, a pioneer department store owned by a popular and successful French businessman, Raphael Weill. From then, the Roulliers' life took a prosperous turn. Christian-Henri resided with his family in San Francisco at the beginning of his career. During the Franco-Prussian War he was listed, with other members of the city's French community, as a local subscriber to a French patriotic fund. He subsequently traveled to Paris to study painting with Jean-Leon Gerome the leading teacher of the day. He also studied sculpture with W. E. Fremiet and explored both media throughout his life. A successful artist, Roullier exhibited widely in France. His work was included in most Paris Salon exhibits between 1878 and 1914. He exhibited at the San Francisco Art Association and the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco in 1883, suggesting that he had returned to San Francisco, perhaps working with Jules Tavernier, whom he depicted in buckskin and knee-high boots in an oil entitled Tavernier Painting. Roullier probably joined the gregarious Tavernier in Monterey as well. Among his portraits, he executed two of Josiah Stanford, now in the collection at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. When in France, Roullier and his sister Blanche spent half of their time in Paris, the remainder at a beautiful property the family bought in the small town of Saint-Nizier sous Charlieu, some ten miles from Roanne. Blanche became a successful pastellist who also exhibited at the French salons and received several awards. Like his friend and fellow-painter Armand Charnay, Roullier painted rustic, local scenes of his native region, except for a few canvases of Tunisia done in colors reminiscent of his California work. He died in Paris on July 25, 1926. A retrospective exhibit of his work was held at the 1926 Paris Winter...

Les Roses Mixed bouquet of roses, Oil painting PROVENANCE: Purchased at Findlay Galleries in Chicago, Illinois late 1960’s bears their label verso and has their original price tag ...

Signed upper right, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and painted circa 1935. Framed dimensions: 24 H x 1.5 D x 28.5 W inches. A vibrant Post-Impressionist still...

Signed lower left, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and painted circa 1935. Precocious as a child, Victor Isbrand painted professionally from a young age and was...

Signed lower right, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and painted circa 1945. A dramatic, Post-Impressionist still-life showing a group of items including a fluted, Japanese porcelain vase holding an informal arrangement of variegated daisies, a lobed Imari bowl with fruit and a Japanese woodblock print set...