- Séraphine Louis
Infobox Artist
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name = Séraphine Louis
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birthdate = 1864
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deathdate = 1942
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nationality = French
field = painting
training = self-taught
movement =Naïve art
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patrons =Wilhelm Uhde
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awards =Séraphine Louis (Séraphine de Senlis) (1864–1942) was a French painter in the naïve style. A former sheperdess and servant in at Senlis, her work was discovered in 1912 by art collector
Wilhelm Uhde .cite book
last = Hamilton
first = George Heard
title = Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940
date = 1993
publisher =Yale University Press
isbn = 0-300-05649-4
pages = 226] While in Senlis, Uhde saw a still-life of apples at his neighbor's house and was astonished to learn that Louis, his housecleaner, was the artist.cite book
last = Greer
first = Germaine
authorlink = Germaine Greer
title = The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work
date = 2001
publisher = Tauris Parke Paperbacks
isbn = 1-860-64677-8
pages = 121-122] Under Uhde's patronage, Louis came to prominence as a naïve painter of her day.Louis' works are of richly fantasised floral arrangements. Her career was relatively short. In 1930, three years after Louis' first exhibition, Uhde stopped buying her paintings as a result of the Great Depression. Louis was admitted to the psychiatric ward of a geriatric hospital, and, although Uhde reported that she had died in 1934, Louis actually survived until 1942, friendless and alone.
Bibliography
Alain Virdondelet, "Séraphine de Senlis", Albin Michel, 1986.
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External links
* [http://www.museeartnaif.com/?page=coeursacre&cmd=coeursacre&image_haut=coeursacre Musée d'art naïf (M.A.N.) Beraut (near Toulouse)] Biography
* [http://www.ville-senlis.fr/menu-in/musee_art.html Musée d'art de Senlis] Reproduction des grandes marguerites
* [http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8D22CC92-F40D-4E96-8472C6B426131797 The Artists] Photographie
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/552668/seraphine-louis.html Artnet]Persondata
NAME=Louis, Séraphine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Séraphine de Senlis
SHORT DESCRIPTION=French naive-style painter
DATE OF BIRTH=1864
PLACE OF BIRTH=1942
DATE OF DEATH=
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