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BEATRICE HOW (Bideford 1867 - 1932 Hoddesdon)

Portrait, 1911
oil/cardboard 37,7 x 46 cm
inscribed á mon amie Diana 1911, signed Beatrice How

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 600 - 800
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 600

Julia Beatrice How was born in Bideford, Devon to a family of silversmiths. Both of her parents died before she was an adult. She moved to Paris to study at the Academie Delecluse around 1893, and began exhibiting in 1902 at the Societé nationale des beaux-arts. While in Paris, she was introduced to the work of Rodin, Polin, Besnard and Lucien Simon, all of who influenced her art. She eventually set up a workshop in Étaples. How painted various subjects, including nudes, portraits of children, and fruit and flower studies, and worked using a variety of media, including pastels, crayons, oils, and watercolours. She is most recognized for her art depicting mothers and children. How was "considered on par with Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt" in France and America. How's works were included in various exhibitions in France, Britain, and abroad (Royal Scottish Academy (1915–36), Royal Glasgow Institute (1913-39), Royal Academy (1924–36), Liverpool Autumn Exhibitions (1910 and 1912), Beaux-Arts Gallery (1927), Galeries Georges Petit (1919 and 1926), Galeries des Artistes Français (1928), Salon des Tuileries (1923–24), and the Carnegie Exhibition (1910-1914, 1925)). A memorial exhibition was held at the Beaux-Arts Gallery in 1933 and at the New Burlington Galleries in 1935. How won an Honourable Mention at the Carnegie Exhibition in 1914 and was elected as an Associate of the Societé nationale des beaux-arts in 1904 This painting, depicting an elderly man in a dressing gown and cap in his home, is a work of Post-Impressionism (Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Henri Rousseau, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Admond Cross, Georges Seurat, Paul Baum, René Schützenberger, Pau Signac, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Sérusier, Henri Lebasque, Olga Bosnańska, Piere Bonnard, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Giovanni Giacometti, Édouard Vuillard, Cuno Amiet, Fernand Piet, Maurice Denis, Georges Dufrénoy, Carl Schmitz-Pleis, Gabriele Münter, André Noufflard, Dietz Edzard, Karl Walther).

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