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Elegant Still Life of Pink Flowers

1987

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Still Life of Pink Roses in a Vase By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 9 x 7 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting on board, un...

Pink Flowers, Still Life by Max Toutain (1935-2006) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas : 21.5 x 26 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from the...

Still Life Pink Flowers In A Vase Artist signed lower right corner and verso, canvas size 30x24, framed. Charlotte Igoe (Amar) was a self thought artist. Charlotte lived in London, England and had her apartment near Marble Arch and Park Lane, she was the first model in London to introduce photographic modeling, which was just starting in New York for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Town and Country, Mayfair, etc. Charlotte was President and owner of the Fort William Times Journal and also President and owner of the James Murphy Coal and Oil Company. Charlotte financed and renovated the entire building of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum, she also financed and renovated the new library of the museum in honor of James Murphy her father-in-law, a well know pioneer at the Lakehead. Charlotte was well known at the Lakehead for her many charitable works, among them: Saint Joseph’s Orphanage, The Thunder Bay Historical Museum, McKellar Hospital, Port Arthur General Hospital, Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, and the Frank Murphy Recreational Centre….St. Patrick’s Cathedral has a beautiful, large stained glass window dedicated in loving memory of Frank X. Murphy and his family. In the early 1950’s, Charlotte was instrumental in having cerebral palsy children recognized and started a school for them which was in the Baptist Church at Brodie and Donald Streets...

This contemporary vivid expressive still life painting, depicting pink flowers and executed with the touch of Expressionism and the heritage of Post-Impressionism, was created by Fre...