Pair Of Watercolors Of Flowers By M. Renaud

Beautiful pair of watercolors of flowers in the famous colorful and pastel style of Madeleine Renaud. Born in Laon on February 20, 1885, Madeleine Dominé would later be known as a watercolor painter under her married name Madeleine Renaud. In her youth, she shone through studies of flowers in the style of botanical plates and from the age of fifteen followed drawing and painting classes on porcelain in Paris. After giving up a career as a pianist, she began to earn her living by devoting herself to painting on porcelain. Specializing in the watercolor technique representing still lifes of flowers, she exhibited in salons and sold her paintings in department stores. After the Second War, the Renaud couple settled in Nice, where the flower market allowed them to obtain almost daily supplies of carnations, mimosas, anemones, roses, violets making up most of their watercolors, most often arranged in baskets. braided, in sheaves or in vases. Occasionally, she also painted landscapes of the French Riviera. When her husband died, she returned to Paris in the 6th arrondissement and continued to make a living from her painting, although modestly, thanks to the support of a loyal clientele, drawing her joie de vivre from her work which was a daily passion, and happily relaxed in the Luxembourg Gardens. She died at the Suresnes hospital on May 9, 1979 at the age of 94 and was buried in the Kremlin-Bicêtre cemetery.