Anna De Noailles Hydrangeas Poppies And Daisies Pastel On Paper

Anna de Noailles Anne-Élisabeth Bibesco Bessaraba de Brancovan Hydrangeas, poppies and daisies Pastel on paper 37 x 48.5 cm (dimensions of the work) 54 x 64 cm (dimensions with the frame) Monogrammed top left Framed, very good Status Born Princess Bibesco Bassaraba de Brancovan, of Greco-Romanian origin, she became Countess of Noailles in 1897. Brilliant poet and novelist belonging to Parisian high society, she was the first woman to be decorated with the Legion of Honor, it received numerous decorations and was notably crowned by the French Academy in 1920 for its collection of poems "Le coeur innumbrable". Anna de Noailles receives and associates with the intellectual, political, literary and artistic elite of her time: Edmond Rostand, Colette, André Gide, Maurice Barrès, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob or even Clémenceau among the most illustrious. Closely linked to the artistic circle, considered a muse by her great beauty and her passionate lyricism, she is portrayed by the greatest: Rodin, Von Dongen, Blanche, Vuillard, Foujita, Forain. Anna de Noailles excelled in pastel colored flowers. Countess Greffulhe organized an exhibition of her pastels at the Galerie Bernheim in 1927. Two pastels were exhibited in the artist's reconstructed room in situ at the Musée Carnavalet. This work representing a bouquet of hydrangeas in a vase, poppies and daisies arranged on the table is typical of the artist's work and once again reveals his passion for drawing flowers.