Tag: France
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Rue du Chateau – Fayence
Read more: Rue du Chateau – FayenceLabeled Fayence on the front and Rue De Chateau on the back, this popular watercolour painting of the other end of the street that my mother lived on. This was…..
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La Mairie, Fayence
Read more: La Mairie, FayenceLa Mairie, Fayence, was the second painting my mother turned into a professionally printed postcard. For the ……
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Fayence – Var
Read more: Fayence – VarLabeled Fayence – Var, my mother turned this popular watercolour painting of her village into both a card and a professionally printed postcard. For the ……
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Diana/Diane
Read more: Diana/DianeDiana Raymakers was the daughter of Dr. G. Raymakers from Aarle-Rixtel in the Netherlands. They were vacationing in the area and saw my mother’s paintings in an exhibition in Seillans, a nearby village. Being fans of the Dutch painter Carel Willink they were taken with my mother’s use of symbolism in the background of her…
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Near the Basse Collette
Read more: Near the Basse ColletteHer diary has reference to a “oil sketch” near the Basse Collette as being one of three similar sized landscape panels that she was working on almost simultaneously.
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Les Lavandières au Lavoir / The Washerwomen at the Wash-House
Read more: Les Lavandières au Lavoir / The Washerwomen at the Wash-HouseLes Lavandières au Lavoir / The Washerwomen at the Washhouse was a painting of Madame Golette who did the laundry for my mother while she lived in Bargemon when she first moved to the south of France. My mother was amazed….
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Mimi Calvy
Read more: Mimi CalvyMadame Mimi Calvy was a 92 year old woman who lived in Bargemon which was the first village my mother lived in when she first moved to the south of France. My mother was always interested in subjects with plenty of wrinkles and life experiences, she would say…..
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La Chapelle de Notre Dame des Cyprès
Read more: La Chapelle de Notre Dame des CyprèsThis a more conventional view of the Notre Dame des Cyprès Chapel just outside of Fayence on the valley floor off the road to Seillans. This lovely chapel was the subject of many of my mother’s landscapes. Although there is no date on the painting…..
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La Chapelle de Notre Dame des Cyprès
Read more: La Chapelle de Notre Dame des CyprèsThis an unusual view of the Notre Dame des Cyprès Chapel just outside of Fayence on the valley floor off the road to Seillans. This lovely little chapel was the subject of several of my mother’s landscapes but mostly from a much closer viewpoint. Here we see the chapel as…..
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The Esterel Massif
Read more: The Esterel MassifThis is the view of the Esterel Massif in the distance from the kitchen window in my mother’s small flat/apartment. Being over the kitchen sink it was….