still life Mildred Bendall
Mildred Bendall was born in Bordeaux in 1891, of British origin, dying in 1977. She was a painter of portraits, seascapes, still lifes and flowers. She trained as a painter between 1910 and 1914 with Félix Carme and her early paintings emulate the ‘Chardinesque’ style of her tutor, but nonetheless show her solid grounding in drawing, technique and composition which earned her the respect of her later tutors, Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse. In 1920 she was admitted to the Salon des Artistes Français, and moved to Paris in 1927; there she attended the Académie de la Grand Chaumière in Montparnasse, where the painters of the École de Paris congregated. Her friendship with Matisse in particular, left a lasting influence on her work. She adopted to great effect his ‘Fauve’ ideas on colour as building blocks for form and space. In 1937, the Galerie de Paris exhibited Bendall’s work alongside canvasses by Kees Van Dongen, Max Jacob and Raoul Dufy. The Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, purchased the work ’Bouquet a la table ronde’.
Her work is represented in the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts; Bordeaux, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
Mildred Bendall was born in Bordeaux in 1891, of British origin, dying in 1977. She was a painter of portraits, seascapes, still lifes and flowers. She trained as a painter between 1910 and 1914 with Félix Carme and her early paintings emulate the ‘Chardinesque’ style of her tutor, but nonetheless show her solid grounding in drawing, technique and composition which earned her the respect of her later tutors, Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse. In 1920 she was admitted to the Salon des Artistes Français, and moved to Paris in 1927; there she attended the Académie de la Grand Chaumière in Montparnasse, where the painters of the École de Paris congregated. Her friendship with Matisse in particular, left a lasting influence on her work. She adopted to great effect his ‘Fauve’ ideas on colour as building blocks for form and space. In 1937, the Galerie de Paris exhibited Bendall’s work alongside canvasses by Kees Van Dongen, Max Jacob and Raoul Dufy. The Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, purchased the work ’Bouquet a la table ronde’.
Her work is represented in the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts; Bordeaux, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
Mildred Bendall was born in Bordeaux in 1891, of British origin, dying in 1977. She was a painter of portraits, seascapes, still lifes and flowers. She trained as a painter between 1910 and 1914 with Félix Carme and her early paintings emulate the ‘Chardinesque’ style of her tutor, but nonetheless show her solid grounding in drawing, technique and composition which earned her the respect of her later tutors, Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse. In 1920 she was admitted to the Salon des Artistes Français, and moved to Paris in 1927; there she attended the Académie de la Grand Chaumière in Montparnasse, where the painters of the École de Paris congregated. Her friendship with Matisse in particular, left a lasting influence on her work. She adopted to great effect his ‘Fauve’ ideas on colour as building blocks for form and space. In 1937, the Galerie de Paris exhibited Bendall’s work alongside canvasses by Kees Van Dongen, Max Jacob and Raoul Dufy. The Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, purchased the work ’Bouquet a la table ronde’.
Her work is represented in the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts; Bordeaux, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.