Bernard Jean Corneille Pothast (Dutch, 1882-1966) Painting. Title - Sharing an Orange. Oil on canvas painting. Signed lower right B. Pothast. Label on reverse, Anderson Galleries, Chicago #7882. Painting measures 24 inches high, 20 inches wide. Frame measures 32 inches high, 26.5 inches wide. The oil painting has the original protective card stock backing. In good restored condition. Has touch up on the right side of the wall and not on any of the figures.

From Askart.com: Born in Belgium, Bernard Pothast (1882-1966) traveled to Paris to attend the École des Beaux Arts. There he studied under the artist Gabriel Ferrier. He also studied at the School of Reichstag and later in Amsterdam under the artist Jules Alby. Bernard Pothast enjoyed a successful career as a genre painter. His favorite subject was the peasant family. European painters of peasants in the nineteenth century found themselves heirs to the inheritance of idyllic literature, which set up certain stereotypes of rustic life. Pothast's images depicted peasant mothers instructing or caring for their young children, placed in rustic interiors sparingly decorated with the family's humble possessions. Their interiors were typically illuminated by the light of early or midday sunshine. These renderings charmed the newly rich industrial merchant, now living and working in urban surroundings, yet craving for the simplicity of country life. Pothast's sentimental illustrations of peasant life were very popular during his lifetime, and remain so today. He died on February 1, 1966 in Laren, North Holland in the Netherlands.

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