Figurative, Portrait

Desire Francois Laugee (1823-1896) European

Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Image Size: 13” x 19”
Signature: Signed and dated 1881 right center
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Désiré-François Laugée was a versatile artist who exhibited at the Paris Salon annually for a fifty-year period (1845-95). Born at Maromme near Rouen, he began his artistic training at Saint-Quentin with Louis-Nicolas Lemasle (1788-1870), a student of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). He then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the well-known teacher François Edouard Picot (1786-1868), another student of David. In his paintings of historical and religious subjects Laugée achieves emotional intensity though the powerful rendering of his figures, and the figures in his portraits and genre pictures have the same solidity and presence. Several of Laugée’s Salon entries were purchased by the French government, including Saint Louis Washing the Feet of the Poor (Ministry of State) and The Death of Zurbaran (Ministry of the Interior). Works in museum collections include Peasant Women of Picardy (Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux) and A Picardy Woman Spinning Wool (Museum of Fine Arts, Amiens).

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D. Jerome Elwell (1847-1912) American

Venice

Medium: Oil On Canvas
Image Size: 40” x 26”
Signature: Signed "Venice" lower left and dated 1880
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

D. Jerome Elwell was born in Massachusetts, June 12, 1847. He was the son of George and Elizabeth Pulcifer Elwell. He died at age 65 in Naples, Italy in 1912. He did watercolors, pastels and drawings. Some of the Belgium work which was early was dark. The pastels which were on brown paper came later and were done in Venice under the influence of Whistler.

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Figurative, Modernism, Portrait

Eda Sterchi (1885-1969) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 40”
Frame Size: 40” x 50”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Born in Olney, Illinois, Eda Sterchi was a landscape and genre painter who worked in the Midwest, Southwest, Europe, and Tunisia. She was a highly independent woman who was the first among her peers to cut her hair in a bob, the first to get divorced, and the first to smoke cigarettes. Her painting was influenced by European modernism, and many of them had large, abstract fields of color.

She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and with Lucien Simon in Paris. Her work met with early success, and in 1913 she began exhibiting at the American Artists Club and the International Artists Union in Paris. In the United States, she exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute from 1915 to 1920 and had a one-woman show there in 1929.

In Tunisia, she attended the Institute de Carthage and there she received official recognition from that government for the quality of her art work. She divided her time between that country and Chicago.

In 1910, Sterchi first visited Taos, New Mexico, and from then exhibited paintings of New Mexico, especially at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1938 and 1939, and from 1940 to 1962, she lived and painted in Phoenix, Arizona during the winters. She was a member of the Institute de Carthage, Chicago Art Club and Chicago Society of Artists

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