256 - Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz* (Sèvres 1890 - 1969 Cachan)

Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz* (Sèvres 1890 - 1969 Cachan) Ireland, 1938 oil/canvas 33 x 46 cm signed Cl. Bertrand, dated 38 verso titled VI Irland SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 400 - 800 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 400 Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz (1890 Sèvres – 1969), a French Expressionist painter, was the wife of the Austrian-French painter Willy Eisenschitz, mother of the painter Eveline Marc (Évelyn, Evely Marc) and photographer David Eisenschitz, and grandmother of the painter/sculptor Délie Duparc (Estelle Delvolvé). The daughter of the geologist Marcel Bertrand and the pianist Mathilde Mascart, and granddaughter of the mathematician Joseph Bertrand, she studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under René Ménard and Lucien Simon, where she married Willy Eisenschitz in 1913. During his internment in World War I, she voluntarily followed him to the camp, where their children David and Evelyne were born. Exhibitions: Société Nationale des Beaux-arts (1921/22), Salon d'Automne (1922-1938), Salon des artistes indépendants (1922-1930), Salon des Tuileries (1928-1943), Billiet (1927/1937), Les vingt-deux (group with Édith Auerbach, Chériane, Rolande Dechorain, Adrienne Jouclard; Galerie Bonaparte 1937), Une famille de peintres (Gallery Allard with family). Stylistically, she combines Expressionism with influences from Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marz, Gabriele Münter, Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Brücke, Cuno Amiet, Max Pechstein, Alexei von Jawlensky, August Macke, Paul Klee, Der Blaue Reiter; colleagues such as Friedrich Aduatz, Franz Bronstert, Marc Chagall, Lyonel Feininger, Fritz Fuhrken, Richard Gerstl, Anna Lesznai, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Max Oppenheimer, Marianne von Werefkin, Georg Philipp Wörlen, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky; others such as Cuno Amiet, Hans Arp, Jean Arp, Lovis Corinth, André Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Giovanni Giacometti, Käthe Kollwitz, Georges Lacombe, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Felix Vallotton, Édouard Vuillard, Nabis, Paul Gauguin. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.