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Louis Ritman (1889 - 1963)
Louis Ritman (1889 - 1963)
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Louis Ritman (1889 - 1963) Portrait, "Head Study" Initialed lower right. Label verso. Sight Size: 17.75 x 14 in. Overall Size: 25 x 21.5 in. Ritman estate stamp verso Oil on board. Known primarily for his sunny, Impressionist landscape paintings, often with figures, Louis Ritman earned much of his reputation for the work he produced during the time he was in Giverny, France, home of Claude Monet, a key Impressionist. Born in Kamenets-Podolsky, Russia, he emigrated with his family to Chicago in 1903, and first travelled from his home in Chicago to Paris in 1910 when he could afford the art training there that so many American artists felt was crucial to professional achievement. He enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julian, but the turning point in his career was meeting Impressionist Frederick Frieseke at a cafe in Paris. Frieseke invited him to Giverny, where he first went in 1911, and from that time his
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