The Dead Artists Gallery Presents “Jeune Femme, Banc de Park”

Almost Barbizon… but not quite. Moody for sure! This early 20th century French oil on hardboard found in Paris falls just outside the Barbizon period but retains the distinctive characteristics of that French genre. George Smith, an American from Philadelphia, must have studied in Paris between the two Great Wars and found this single woman reading on a park bench a perfect subject for his “mood.” “Jeune Femme, Banc de Park” was painted in 1935 and is signed/dated lower right. Framed in a more recent French frame 26 x 30, $675.