Jardin Volterra - Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)

An oil on canvas measuring 61X50 cm representing the garden volterra circa 1935

Maurice Asselin born June 24, 1882 in Orleans and died September 27, 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine is a French painter and engraver attached to the School of Paris.

Maurice Asselin is best known for his still lifes and nudes. Another recurring theme in her work is motherhood, which has reached rare levels of delicacy. He also skillfully devoted himself to watercolors and painting the landscapes of his beloved Brittany. He lived from 1911 at 39, rue Lamarck, from 1916 at 121, rue de Caulaincourt in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, then from 1925 at 45, rue du Bois-de-Boulogne in Neuilly-sur-Seine . Public collections: Algeria, Algiers, National Museum of Fine Arts Belgium, Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts. Denmark, Copenhagen, Copenhagen museum. United States, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Brooklyn Museum. Museum of Modern Art France, Aix-les-Bains, Musée Faure: Nude model in an armchair. Albi, Toulouse-Lautrec museum: Portrait of Édouard Branly, 1936. Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Albert-André museum: La Rue de Tournon in Paris. Brest, Musée des Beaux-Arts: The rest of the model. Cambrai, Cambrai museum: The Café in the garden. Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble: Portrait of Jean Pellerin in Keriolet. Guéret, Sénatorerie museum: Young woman at the piano, 1927. Lyon, museum of fine arts. Nanterre, The Contemporary: The Mobilization. Nantes, Musée des beaux-arts: Maternité, 1923, oil on canvas. Orleans, Museum of Fine Arts: Reclining nude. Paris: National Library of France: Portraits of Maurice Farina, drawings, Maurice Farina collection. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Concarneau Basin. Paris Museum of Modern Art: Aux Glénans, circa 1932-1935, watercolor drawing. National Museum of Modern Art: The Café in the Garden, 1922; The Arc de triomphe on the Place du Carrousel, 1938. Péronne, Alfred-Danicourt museum. Pont-Aven, Pont-Aven museum: Self-portrait; The Brigneau Pier. Rennes, museum of fine arts: View of Raguenès. Saint-Brieuc, town hall: Curnonsky in Brittany, deposit of the National Contemporary Art Fund. Versailles, Musée Lambinet: Boats in the port, watercolor. Location unknown: Curnonsky at the table by Mélanie Rouat, 1927, oil on canvas, formerly in Paris at the Musée du Luxembourg. United Kingdom: Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum: Boats. Cheltenham, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum: Two Young Girls Reading, oil on canvas. Leeds, Leeds Museum. London, British Museum. Manchester: Whitworth Art Gallery. Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield: Anemones, oil on canvas. Russia, Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Switzerland, Geneva, Petit Palais: Les Péniches, 1913, oil on canvas. Young woman stripping naked, circa 1927,