oil on canvas
70.0
x 60.0
cm
'Tulips in a Blue Vase' oil on canvas c1930 by Mildred Bendall
Mildred Bendall was born in Bordeaux in 1891, of British origin, dying
in 1977. She was a painter of portraits, seascapes, still lifes and flowers.
She trained as a painter between 1910 and 1914 with Félix Carme and her early
paintings emulate the ‘Chardinesque’ style of her tutor, but nonetheless show
her solid grounding in drawing, technique and composition which earned her the
respect of her later tutors, Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse. In 1920 she was
admitted to the Salon des Artistes Français, and
moved to Paris in 1927; there she attended the Académie de la Grand Chaumière
in Montparnasse, where the painters of the École de
Paris congregated. Her friendship with Matisse in particular, left a lasting
influence on her work. She adopted to great effect his ‘Fauve’ ideas on colour
as building blocks for form and space. In 1937, the Galerie de Paris exhibited
Bendall’s work alongside canvasses by Kees Van Dongen, Max Jacob and Raoul Dufy.
The Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, purchased the work ’Bouquet a la table
ronde’.
Her work is represented in the
collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts; Bordeaux, Musée National d’Art
Moderne, Paris; Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
(24.21)
Biblio:
Bénézit: Dictionary of Painters
Price: $11,985.00
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