Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron
Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron | |
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 Lemoine-Lagron in 1912 | |
| Born | Thérèse Lemoine August 23, 1891 |
| Died | March 30, 1949 |
| Nationality | France |
| Known for | flower painting |
Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron (August 23, 1891 – March 30, 1949) was a French watercolour painter known for her still-lifes of flowers. She also painted war damaged churches in the 1940s.
Life[]
Lemoine-Lagron was born in the Paris suburb of Gournay-sur-Marne in 1891.[1] Her father Jules Lemoine was a physicist and assistant professor who would be awarded the title of Officer of the Legion of Honor. She was trained from 1909 to 1911 at the National School of Decorative Arts. Afterwards she married a jewellery designer named Lagron when she was 22 and her professional name became "Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron".[2]
She began to exhibit her paintings in 1921. Her paintings were of flowers and she was a pupil of who was older than her.[2] Eugénie was a water colour painter of flowers.[3] Lemoine-Lagron would buy vases from antique dealers and then arrange flowers from local florists as the subject of her paintings.[2]
In time she took her own students which included the painter Christiane Francoise Groc.[4]
Lemoine-Lagron died in 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine at her home 63 rue Boursault, Paris.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Bienvenue à Gournay - Gournay-sur-Marne - Site officiel de la commune". www.ville-gournay-sur-marne.fr. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Thérese Lemoine Lagron". lemoine-lagron.webnode.fr. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ^ "Eugénie FAUX-FROIDURE Entablement de fleurs". Galerie de Souzy. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ^ français, Société des artistes (1931). Salon de 1931: exposition annuelle des beaux-arts (in French). G. Lang.
- 1891 births
- 1949 deaths
- 20th-century French women artists
- Artists from Paris
- French women painters
- People from Gournay-sur-Marne