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Wicket basket with Anemones a humble festive gift 19th century floral still life

1884

This charming and exuberant posy of peonies immediately made me think of similar works by Marcel Dyf - but it is actually a work by the ultimate master of art deco...

This simple and elegant still life depicts a potted Geranium and a bowl of Oranges on a table decorated with a vase and a tablecloth. Clearly, the artist chose objets close to her he...

Here is a painting that will lift you - one feels happy every time one looks at it. It is such a lovely, unusual twist to the theme of the floral still life: here we have flowers, not in a vase, but attached to a wooden front door. I wonder if the artist did this with actual flowers, perhaps for a sweetheart, and then decided to paint the scene? At any rate: who wouldn't want to come home to find a large bunch of glorious lilac as they come home? The artist is Emile Baudoux (1850 -1929), who studied with Humbert and Cabanel. Paris-born, he liked to work in Normandy, where he had his studio. He exhibited his work at the "Salon des Artistes Français" until 1927, where he obtained a gold medal in 1910. The important oil on canvas presented here, dating from 1901, may have been shown at the Salon, as it bears an exhibition number "30" at the upper right of the canvas. It is signed and dated at the lower left as seen in the photos. Measuring 81 x 60 cm, the overall size including its original large oak frame...

A remarkable work by Charles Nicolas Etienne Mayre, an academic painter born in Choisy le Roi near Paris in 1819. He studied with the masters Michel-Martin Drolling and Leon Cogniet...

Lucienne Lemercier was a French painter from the latter part of the 19th century through the early 20th century. She came from a family of creative people and took to painting at a...

Floral Still Life of Anemones indistinctly signed oil on board, unframed board: 15.75 x 15.75 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound condition This vi...

A very beautiful early 20th century impressionist oil on board still life depicting colourful anemones in a blue vase by Victor Simonin. This important and very fine work was exhib...

A very fine Mid Century French School still life, showing a delicate posy of vibrant anemones in a white porcelain vase. The artist has enhanc...