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Émile Bernard
French, 1868–1941
Portrait de Madame Lemasson
1891
Bernard painted this portrait during one of his many trips to the Brittany region of northwestern France. The sitter, Madame Lemasson, is the innkeeper with whom Bernard stayed during his visits to the coastal town of Saint Briac between 1886 and 1892. Seated and knitting in front of a table adorned with a vase of flowers, Madame Lemasson wears the traditional headdress of the Breton people. The flattened forms, blocks of color, and strong contours demonstrate Bernard’s Synthetist style—a term he used to differentiate his work from that of the Impressionists.
Image Caption
Émile Bernard, Portrait de Madame Lemasson, 1891, Oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 2016.3
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Image: 18 1/8 × 21 5/8 in. (46 × 55 cm)
Object Number
2016.3
Acquisition
Acquired by the Clark, 2016
Status
On View
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