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Country of origin: United States
Medium: Oil on board
Signed: Signed lower left & dated
Dated: 1898
Size: 5.00" x 3.50" (12.7cm x 8.9cm)
1924
Oil on paper laid on panel
£5,950.00
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Dimanche
by Paul Elie Gernez
1918
Oil on original canvas
£51,000.00
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Portrait of a Girl
by Alfredo Guttero
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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Le Café de la Place Blanche
by Elie Anatole Pavil
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£3,250.00
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Pierret et Monocole
by Armand Francois Henrion
1897
Oil on panel
£5,750.00
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The Young Hunter
by Victor Gabriel Gilbert
c. 1920
Oil on panel
£4,950.00
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Nu Couche
by Fernand Toussaint
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,750.00
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Joyeux pierrot
by Armand Francois Henrion
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,950.00
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Pierrot Surpris!
by Armand Francois Henrion
1886
Oil on panel
£3,450.00
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Dancer at the Opera
by Norbert Goeneutte
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
£44,500.00
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Nu dans l’Atelier
by Henri Lebasque
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
£14,950.00
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Maternite
by Henri Lebasque
c. 1895
Oil on canvas
£7,950.00
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Nu dans l’atelier
by Rene Xavier Prinet
Raised in Potter Valley near Ukiah, California, Grace Carpenter Hudson was an acclaimed painter of Native American subjects, especially the Pomo Indians of coastal and inland Northern California. After attending public schools in Ukiah and San Francisco, she enrolled in San Francisco’s California School of Design as a teenager, studying there for five terms with Virgil Williams, Raymond Yelland, and others.
In 1890, the artist married John Hudson, a physician for the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company, who quit practicing medicine in order to research the Pomo Indians and follow his interests in archeology and ethnography. With her husband, she returned to Ukiah and became known to locals as the Painter Lady.
Hudson achieved a national reputation during her lifetime. She produced her first important work, National Thorn, which depicted a sleeping Pomo baby in a cradle basket, in 1891. Two years later, she painted a crying Pomo infant, a work she called Little Mendocino. The popularity of the second painting in particular, which was exhibited at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and at the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, confirmed her reputation and direction.
In 1900-1901, Grace Hudson had become exhausted from supplying the demand for her popular paintings; she took a solo vacation in the Territory of Hawaii, relaxing and refreshing herself. While there, she completed 26 paintings of Island scenes and Japanese, Chinese and Hawaiian people. By the time of Hudson’s death in 1937, she had completed over 684 numbered oil paintings, most depicting the Pomo people.