We welcome the New Year with a selection of new acquisitions now available from our collection. These three paintings by Claude Grosperrin encompass the artists’ favourite subjects, horses, still life and landscapes. Our artist of the month Clémentine Hélène Dufau, demonstrates in this portrait her exceptional ability to capture the personality of the sitter.
Claude Grosperrin
Pontécoulant – Normandie
Oil on canvas: 65 cm x 81 cm
Framed size: 86 cm x 102 cm
Signed
Claude Grosperrin
Au bouquet fleuri
Oil on canvas: 46 cm x 55 cm
Framed size: 62 cm x 71 cm
Signed
Artist of the Month
Clémentine Hélène Dufau (1869-1937)
Clémentine Hélène Dufau was born in 1869 in Quinsac in the Gironde region of France, near Bordeaux. Her father was an entrepreneur of Basque ancestry, and having made a fortune in Cuba, married the daughter of the owner of Le Chateau de Clauzel vineyard. The vineyard is still producing classic Bordeaux wines today. She suffered ill health as a child and spent much of her enforced bed rest drawing. By the age of nineteen she expressed a wish to study in Paris, and with the help of her parents was able to enrol at the Academie Julian. Her tutors there were the academic artists Wiliam Bougereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. Read more...
Pictured: Portrait of a Gentleman, oil on canvas: 60 cm x 50 cm (framed size: 70 cm x 60 cm), signed.
