Marcelle Bergerol (1900 Paris - 1989 Paris) was a member of the atelier of Edmond Heuzé, and enjoyed remarkable longevity as a painter, bringing to the canvas exceptional images of France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, including Brittany

Brittany

Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

, Quercy

Quercy

Quercy is a former province of France located in the country's southwest, bounded on the north by Limousin, on the west by Périgord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and Auvergne....

 in the Dordogne

Dordogne

Dordogne is a départment in south-west France. The départment is located in the region of Aquitaine, between the Loire valley and the High Pyrénées named after the great river Dordogne that runs through it...

 region, and Paris, the City of lights.

Marcelle Bergerol was considered a figurative painter as well as a regional painter (meaning her artwork was mainly limited to the three regions abovementioned)

Bergerol exhibited in Paris at the “Salon des Indépendants” starting in 1927 and later showed her work at the “Salon d'Automne

Salon d'Automne

In 1903, the first Salon d'Automne was organized by Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Angele Delasalle and Albert Marquet as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon...

” from 1929 to 1936, and the “Salon des Tuileries

Salon des Tuileries

The Salon des Tuileries was an annual art exhibition for painting and sculpture, created June 14, 1923, co-founded by painter Albert Besnard, sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, architect Auguste Perret, and others....

” from 1930 to 1934. She also exhibited in several galleries in Paris, like the Gallery du Verseau, the Gallery Altarriba and the Gallery Armand Drouant, before and after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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Color and forms are two distinctive elements in Bergerol's work, and in her mastery of the canvas she transports us back to France to a vibrant, dynamic time. Her art was inspired by great masters like Cézanne, Monet and Pissaro

Pissaro

Pissaro may refer to:*Camille Pissarro French Impressionist painterSons of Camille:*Félix Pissarro painter, etcher and caricaturist*Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro French artist...

. As a post-impressionist painter, however, she was especially influenced by the use of colors in fauvist

Fauvism

Fauvism is the style of les Fauves , a short-lived and loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism...

 painter Albert Marquet

Albert Marquet

Albert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.-Life and work:Marquet was born in 1875 at Bordeaux. In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, where he met Henri Matisse. They were roommates for a time, and they influenced each other's work...

's work.