Hermine DAVID

" L'ïle de Bréhat "

Original Etching.
Handisgned in pencil.
Numbered in pencil 3/60.
Size of the etching : 12 x 9 cm
Size of the paper : 32 x 25cm

DAVID Hermine (Hermine Lionette CARTAN said)

Painter and illustrator. Paris (17 °) April 1, 1886 - Hospital Bry-sur-Marne December 1, 1970. Daughter of Ferdinand Cartan and Marcelle David, she takes as the name of painter that of his mother. Early artist, at the age of fifteen, she took drawing lessons, in 1902 she studied at the Beaux-Arts, and at the Académie Julian until 1905, in the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens; she later learns the technique of engraving. Hermine first settles in a workshop on the ground floor of 3 rue Joseph Bara, a house in which Moses Kisling has a studio on the 3rd floor, Pascin on the 4th, Zborowski is opposite in the building where find André Salmon. Hermine, miniaturist on ivory, meets Pascin in 1906 *, she joins him in New York in 1915 *, they visit together the southern United States and Cuba, and get married in September 1920 * after Pascin took the American nationality. In 1921, Pascin and Hermine traveled to Tunisia with Abdul Wahab. The following year, he moved to a studio at 36, boulevard de Clichy. Pascin can not decide between his wife and his mistress Lucy with whom he has a hopeless affair.

It leaves an important work, composed of urban landscapes, views of the banks of the Seine and the Riviera treated in acid colors in a resolutely figurative style, quite in the spirit of its time, the years 20, it has its own pictorial writing, full of charm.

Hermine David had many addresses in Montmartre: in the street Lepic, then impasse Girardon, place of Antwerp, rue Hégésippe Moreau, and street Caulaincourt. On his death in 1970, Hermine David lives in Nogent-sur-Marne.

Source: Dictionary of Painters in Montmartre. Éditions André Roussard.