Élisabeth SONREL (1874 - 1953) Ligéia, 1904... - Lot 103 - Osenat

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Élisabeth SONREL (1874 - 1953) Ligéia, 1904... - Lot 103 - Osenat
Élisabeth SONREL (1874 - 1953) Ligéia, 1904 Oil on canvas On the stretcher, a salon label bearing the number 105 Signed lower left 61.8 x 41.5 cm With frame: 81 x 60 cm Provenance: France, private collection Exhibition: 1904, Paris, Salon, no 1655, Ligéia. Oil on canvas, signed lower left, 24 7/16 x 24 7/16 in With frame: 31 29/32 x 23 5/8 in Élisabeth Sonrel is an artist close to the symbolists, although she remained on the fringe of their artistic circles. She took drawing classes at the Académie Julian as a pupil of Jules Lefèbvre. Settled in Sceaux in 1895, she created painted sets and portraits, most often taking her friends as models. Her work was rewarded even before she was twenty years old and she took part in the Salon des artistes français from 1893 until 1939. Her works were sought after by French and foreign collectors, particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. An ideal feminine iconography predominates in Élisabeth Sonrel's work, which draws its inspiration from Pre-Raphaelite, Symbolist and Art Nouveau aesthetics, but also from the work of the Old Masters, including Botticelli. Spiritual, distant and mysterious, her young women belong to no world and are inspired by the Virgin and the mystical saints, as well as the legends of the medieval period. The artist creates soft and melancholic representations of them, depicting young women with long red hair and wearing precious tunics (ill. 1), like the model in our painting. Our painting was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes français in 1904 under the title Ligéia, named after the character of Edgar Allan Poe's new homonym published in 1838 and translated into French by Charles Baudelaire in 1856.
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