Séraphine de Senlis - Séraphine Louis - The Bouquet of Leaves
Séraphine de Senlis’s life is like her work: rich, prolific and obscure. She was born in a rural environment in the Oise department. Orphaned at the age of seven, she was raised by her elder sister and swiftly left to her own fate. As a maid at the convent of La Charité de la Providence in Clermont-de-l’Oise, she plunged into religious life and became steeped in the images of piety surrounding her. From then on, and throughout her life, she devoted herself to the worship of the Virgin Mary. As a chambermaid employed by middle-class families in the environs of Senlis, she started to paint small still lifes, in great solitude; she herself made her own colours using Ripolin as a base, making enigmatic mixtures, which nobody knew the secret of. In 1927, several of her works were accepted for an exhibition held by the Society of Friends of the Arts in the City of Senlis. Wilhelm Uhde, a great collector, art critic and dealer, showed great interest in her painting filled with “ecstatic confessions”, and became her patron - Claire Bickert - Translated from French by Simon Pleasance - Archive of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions
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