Blanche Odin Woman Artist Flowers

A purple flower (pansy flower) placed on a board treated with watercolor and signed lower right. Blanche Odin (1865-1957) decided to become a painter in the early 1880s, becoming a student of a watercolorist and porcelain painter Delphine de Cool, the Paris School of Fine Arts being closed to women. She then trained with Madeleine Lemaire and Ulpiano Checa, other specialists in the representation of flowers in watercolor. Often working in the Pyrenees, she exhibited regularly in Parisian salons, notably at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1888, of which she became a member in 1901. Our watercolor is framed in a small carved and gilded wooden frame, in the absence of which it measures 10.5x16.8 cm.