Adeline Hugonnard: HST Bouquet of Flowers Dimensions with frame: 54x46 cm Dimensions of the painting: 41 x 33 cm Adeline Hugonnard is a French painter born in Saint-Etienne (Loire) in 1906 and died in Chauffailles (Saône-et-Loire) in 1987. Biography Considered a regional artist, Adeline Hugonnard dedicated a large part of her works to floral motifs. A student at the Fine Arts School of Saint-Etienne, she exhibited five canvases at the Salon of the Société des Arts du Forez at the age of 19, in 1925 (chrysanthemums, dahlias, wallflowers, roses, and daisies). Among the works at the salon are also paintings by Antoine Barbier, a Lyon master of watercolor. In 1926, the city of Saint-Etienne purchased a still life, flowers, and fruits. This would be the first work of a long series acquired by the people of Saint-Etienne (institutional and private collections). She would not stop painting and regularly exhibited at regional salons: Saint-Etienne, Lyon (Salon d’Automne), Roanne. She painted some oval canvases until the 1930s. Her watercolors are rarer. From her birth in 1906, she was diagnosed with a laryngeal malformation that rendered her deaf and mute. This disability undoubtedly hindered her artistic career and her standing as an artist. After her father's death in 1940, she lived alone with her mother. She entered the retirement home in Chauffailles after her mother's passing, where the management set up a corner-studio for her. Adeline continued to paint flowers on various supports (lining of her coat, mops, etc.). At her death without descendants, she donated her studio collection to the city of Chauffailles. Two of her works are preserved in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole, another in the National Center for Plastic Arts (CNAP), and more at the Museum of the City of Chauffailles, located at the Château de Chauffailles (Saône-et-Loire), alongside the works of Marcel Journay. An exhibition organized by the "La Bartavelle" gallery took place in 2010 in Charlieu (Loire): "Adeline Hugonnard, Painter of Flowers", as well as in 2014 in Usson-En-Forez: "Adeline Hugonnard, A Life of Painting". Type: Oil Characteristics: Signed Theme: Flower, Tree Country of origin: France