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Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this Antique Oil Painting to the 1900s.
His work is very highly regarded and a beautiful example.
Title: “Wild Poppies"
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on original canvas
Size: 16 x 13 inches unframed / 20 x 17 inches framed
Condition: Unlined original canvas - 2 small repairs verso. No issues from the front of the painting.
Born 31 December 1858, in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Painter. Portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.
Initially a student of Gérôme, then of Glaize and Emmanuel Lansyer, Didier started exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1880. He also exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, and became a member of the group in 1899. He specialised in scenes of domestic bourgeois life, such as his painting of Young Women with a Parrot, and also painted mountain views in the Alps.
Auction Records
Paris, 10 and 11 Dec 1926: Resting at the Roadside, FRF 75
Paris, 21 March 1980: Lacemaker at Work (1895, oil on canvas, 25¼ × 21¼in/64 × 54cm) FRF 1,000
New York, 27 Oct 1983: Two Young Women at a Window (1899, oil on canvas, 36¼ × 23½in/92 × 59.6cm) USD 7,000
New York, 29 Feb 1984: Oriental Woman (1889, oil on canvas, 21½ × 32in/54.5 × 81cm) USD 6,750
New York, 27 Feb 1986: Oriental Woman (1889, oil on canvas, 21½ × 32in/54.5 × 81cm) USD 5,000
New York, 23 Oct 1997: Reverie by the Window (1900, oil on canvas, 39½ × 26in/100.3 × 66cm) USD 19,550
New York, 18 March 1998: Rowing, One Afternoon (oil on canvas, 39¼ × 32in/100 × 81cm) USD 23,000
Paris, 13 Dec 1999: Reading (oil on canvas, 18 × 15 ins/46 × 38 cm) FRF 22,000
New York, 3 May 2000: The Laundress (1885, oil on canvas, 51 × 72 ins/130 × 184 cm) USD 18,000
Paris, 19 April 2002: Young Mother and her Child (oil on panel, 22 × 18 ins/56 × 46 cm) EUR 6,800
Lund, 16 Nov 2002: Breakfast (1903, oil on canvas, 46 × 35 ins/116 × 88 cm) SEK 120,000
Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this Antique Oil Painting to the 1900s.
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Clovis Auguste Francois Didier (1858-1939) Oil Painting
