Clementine Ballot (1879–1964) — Autumn At Pont Charraud — Signed And Dated 1918

An enchanting oil on canvas signed by Clémentine Ballot (lower right) and titled Autumn at Pont Charraud on the reverse (dated 1918 on the stretcher). Bearing an exhibition label on the back, this work measures 23.62 x 29.52 inches. Born Alphonsine Marie Antoinette Clémentine Leroi in 1879, Clémentine Ballot was originally from the Creuse region of France. Encouraged by her husband, she settled there for much of her life, befriending artists such as Eugène Alluaud, Anders Osterlind, Mania Mavro, Georges-Hanna Sabbagh, Alfred Smith, Francis Picabia, Paul Madeline, Armand Point, and Armand Guillaumin. Her travels and painting expeditions took her throughout the Creuse, Brittany, the Lot and Dordogne, the Balearic Islands, and the South of France. Exhibiting in Parisian salons from 1923 onward—at venues such as the Galerie Georges Petit and, later, Bernheim Jeune—Ballot became known for her Impressionist-influenced style and keen sensitivity to light and color. The soothing, delicate quality of her landscapes continues to captivate, earning her a place in numerous museum collections, including those of Ajaccio, Limoges, Montauban, Paris, and beyond. Born Alphonsine Born Alphonsine Marie Antoinette Clémentine Leroi in Paris on December 20, 1891, she died in Paris on November 19, 1964. Clémentine Ballot was attached to the Crozant school. She met Armand Guillaumin in 1906. A landscape painter, she worked in the Creuse region of Brittany, the Lot and Dordogne, the Balearic Islands, and also in the south of France. In the Creuse Valley, she met Eugène Alluaud, Anders Osterlind, Léon Detroy, Mania Mavro, Georges-Hanna-Sabbagh, Alfred Smith, and Francis Picabia. She exhibited at the Georges Petit Gallery in 1923 and at the Bernheim Jeune Gallery in 1936. A friend of the painter Jean-Eugène Clary and his wife, she received from his widow the portrait of Suzanne Valadon at the age of twenty, painted by her husband around 1887. She donated this work in 1956 to the Musée National d'Art Moderne. Clémentine Ballot was decorated with the Legion of Honor and received the Prix Puvis de Chavannes in 1950.