Martin Borgord (1869-1935) "portrait Of An Elegant Lady" Expressionist Style

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Martin Borgord (1869-1935) "Portrait of an Elegant Lady", oil on wood panel signed lower right and dedicated to Madame Merlet.

"In the past, I worked on the effects of shadow and light. Now, I paint exclusively for unusual effects and harmonies of colors". These are the words with which Martin Borgord, a painter of Norwegian origin but naturalized American, interviewed by a journalist from the Hartford Courant, explains our painting. Straddling Impressionism and Expressionism, the elegant lady loses the sharpness of details, blends with light and color, with rapid and dense brushstrokes.

Very good condition. Presented in a carved and silvered wooden frame.

Measurements
Panel cm 41 x 33
Frame cm 51 x 43

BIOGRAPHY
Martin Borgord was born on February 8, 1869 in Guasdal, Norway and died on March 25, 1935 in Riverside, California.

At the age of 16, Borgord was residing in San Francisco and enrolled to study with Virgil Macey Williams (1830-1886) at the San Francisco Art Association School of Design. Interested in both painting and sculpture, Borgord would travel to Paris. He was accepted to study at the Académie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Académie des Beaux-Arts under sculptor Charles Raoul Verlet. In 1896, Martin Borgord would return to New York and enroll at the newly founded Chase School of Art (later renamed the New York School of Art) with William Merritt. In 1899, the influential art dealer William Macbeth, devoted to the cause of promoting American art, represented Borgord in New York. With his friend and fellow artist William Henry Singer (son of the steel magnate William Singer), he settled in the late 19th century in Laren, Netherlands, a small town where many artists of the Hague School, influenced by French art. The Impressionists, who had gone to experiment with painting in the open, welcomed into their studios a large number of American artists, including, among others, Henry Ward Ranger, William Henry Howe, Amy Cross, Charles Gruppe, Walter Castle Keith, and Joseph Raphael.
Borgord returned to the United States to become director of the Carnegie Institute Art School and the Allegheny School of Painting in Pennsylvania, but he would continue to maintain a part-time studio in Holland.
At the Paris Salon of 1905, Borgord was honored with a gold medal and, years later, in 1924, with a solo exhibition of his paintings and sculptures at the Galerie de Marsan. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1913 and again in 1919. An international artist, he belonged not only to the exclusive Salmagundi Club in New York, but also to the St. Lucas Society in Amsterdam, the Allied Art Association, and the American Art Association in Paris.
He was recognized in the United States and Europe as a leading painter and sculptor.

Museums: Musée du Luxembourg, Paris Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh National Academy of Design, New York Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD. Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, Maine