Hermine David 1886-1966 The Pier At Saint Vaast La Hougue Watercolor

The Pier at Saint Vaast La Hougue Watercolor 30 x 45 cm signed lower right Born in Paris in 1886,

wife of the painter Jules Pascin, Hermine David was herself an artist in her own right who worked in a wide variety of media and styles, including watercolour, pastel, charcoal, drypoint and lithography. She entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1902 and then attended the Académie Julian, becoming a regular exhibitor at the Salon des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs. She created 18th century style ivory miniatures in 1907 and turned to book illustration in the 1920s, including works by Marcel Proust, François Mauriac and Paul Verlaine. His paintings are often of post-impressionist style, they are landscapes made in oil, watercolor, pastel and charcoal. Both David and Pascin were members of the School of Paris group. They met in 1907 and in April 1915 Hermine David followed Pascin to America aboard the Lusitania. The couple lived in New York from 1915 to 1920 and finally married in 1918. On September 30, 1920, Pascin obtained American citizenship and H. David also became an American citizen. They returned to Paris the same year, H. David made his first personal exhibition at the Berthe Weill gallery in 1922 and received the Legion of Honor prize in 1932. Pascin had left her in 1927 for Lucy Krogh, the friend common with whom he had an affair since she had been his model. Hermine David continued her artistic career and produced a multitude of paintings, prints, miniatures and book illustrations acclaimed by critics and the public. She retired to the Maison Nationale des Artistes in Nogent sur Marne and died in 1966. Museums: Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Delmenhorst, Germany, Algiers, Museum of Fine Arts, Barnes Philadelphia Foundation, Art Association of New York, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Phillips Collection, Washington, Tate Gallery, London, Takahata Collections, Japan, Petit Palais in Geneva, etc.