Oil On Cardboard, Forest Under Wood By Marthe Orant

Marthe-Marie-Hélène Orant, 1874-1957

is a French painter and post-impressionist.
Student of Marcel Bachet. She likes to paint like the painters of her time,

Parisian scenes of quays, streets, public gardens or even the Bois de Boulogne lake, with a lively touch and pastel colors. Her scenes are often of great tranquility, and poetic, in the wake of Renoir to Bonnard or the Nabis.

Moreover, she befriended the painter Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940). Marthe Orant also likes to paint nature. and work outdoors.

There are many representations of undergrowth and forests. She exhibited for the first time at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts in 1923, then at the Salon of French Artists; at the Salon des Indépendants since 1926 and finally at the Salon des Tuileries from 1928 to 1940. Silver medal of the Universal Exhibition of 1937. The Museum of Modern Art acquired a painting in 1948. The state, he did the same in 1944-1945-1950 and 1954