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Lot 86
Granville Seymour Redmond (American 1871-1935) "AFTERNOON STUDY" oil on canvas signed and dated "Granville Redmond 1917" 11 x 14in. signed and inscribed $40 Afternoon Study Granville Redmond 1917 verso. Granville Redmond is considered one of the finest of the California Impressionist painters. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Deaf from the age of 2 ½ Redmond never learned to speak He received his artist training at the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco and the Academy Julian in Paris with Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). He was personal pantomime coach to Charlie Chaplin, who collected his works. Redmond was a member of the San Francisco Art Association, the California Art Club, the Laguna Beach Art Association and the Bohemian Club. He exhibited at the San Francisco Art Association and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Redmond won medals at the California School of Design (1891), the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle (1909)
Final Bid: $23,000 |
