CLAIRE BERTRAND-EISENSCHITZ* (Sevres 1890 - 1969 Cachan)
Flowers
oil/canvas, 41 x 33 cm
monogrammed CB

ESTIMATE °€ 400 - 800
STARTING PRICE °€ 400

The French Expressionist painter Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz was the wife of the Austro-French painter Willy Eisenschitz, mother of the painter Eveline Marc (Evelyn Marc, Evely Marc) and photographer David Eisenschitz, and grandmother of the painter and sculptor Delie Duparc (Estelle Delvolve). Her father was the geologist Marcel Bertrand, her mother the pianist and Mathilde Mascart. Claire Bertrand was the granddaughter of the mathematician Joseph Bertrand. Bertrand studied in Paris at the Academie Julien and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, in the class of Rene Menard and Lucien Simon. There she met Willy Eisenschitz, whom she married in 1913. Eisenschitz was interned for the duration of World War I. She voluntarily followed him to the detention center. David and Evelyne were born there. In 1921 and 1922 she exhibited at the Societe nationale des beaux-arts and from 1922 to 1938 at the Salon d'automne. Other exhibitions: Salon des artistes independants, (1922 to 1930), Salon d'automne, de 1922 to 1938, Billiet (1927 and 1937), Salon des Tuileries (1928 to 1943), Les vingt-deux, groupe feminin (Edith Auerbach , Claire Bertrand, Cheriane, Rolande Dechorain, Adrienne Jouclard; Galerie Bonaparte, Paris, 1937), Une famille de peintres (Galerie Allard, with Willy Eisenschitz and Evelyn Marc).

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