Catherine hessling painting
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Updated 24 October 2024
Currently not on display
Madame Jean Renoir (Catherine Hessling)
| Date | c. 1923 |
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| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 90.4 x 75.2 |
| Inscriptions | Signed lower right: Derain |
| Credit Line | Donated by Ms. Eiko Yamamoto |
| Standard ref. | Kellermann 914 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.1990-0008 |
This painting depicts the actress Catherine Hessling, wife of the film director Jean Renoir. Catherine Hessling was her stage name, while her real name was Andrée Madeleine Heuschling and she was known as "Dédée" to her close associates. Starting in 1915, she served as a model for Auguste Renoir, Jean's father, and she appears in many images of bathing from his final period. Jean first met Catherine at his father's villa "Les Collettes" and he married her after his father's death. She became an actress after her marriage, and acted in such roles as the lead in her husband's film Nana. Around that time Derain changed his dealer, from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to Paul Guillaume. The sales prowess of his new dealer, combined with active mention of Derain in the writings of Guillaume's friend the poet André Salmon, meant that Derain became a high-selling
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Catherine Hessling
French actress (1900–1979)
Catherine Hessling (born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling; 22 June 1900 – 28 September 1979) was a Frenchactress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.
Biography
[edit]Hessling, born in Champagne-Ardennes, had sought refuge in Nice during World War I. Her paternal ancestors came from Alsace but moved to Champagne-Ardennes when Alsace transferred to Germany. In 1917, her beauty came to the attention of Henri Matisse, who sent her to fellow artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir as he thought she looked like a suitable Renoir subject. Hessling modelled, clothed and nude, for Renoir until his death in December 1919. Renoir's second son, Jean, fell in love with Hessling, and the couple married on 24 January 1920. Hessling gave birth to a son, Alain Renoir, on 31 October 1921.
Jean Renoir had been planning a career in ceramic art but decided instead to try his hand in the medium of film in the attempt, he would later claim, to make Hessling a star. While both were aficionados of American films, and Hessling copied fashions and behaviour she saw on the screen, she had in fact never had an
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