By Ariane Beigneux
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed verso
Should mat out beautifully
This painting, exemplifies the type of traditional portraits the artist Ariane Beigneux was specially known for. Here, Beigneux depicts the portrait of a little boy and horse in a realistic, and seemingly idealized manner. The artist uses local colors and controlled brushstrokes to render the subject, paying close attention to details adding a special clarity to the naturalism of the portrait.
it is painted on Whatman illustration board. some drawing in the margins.
Ariane Beigneux
American Portrait Painter and Illustrator of Childhood
Ariane Beigneux (1918–2011) was an American portrait painter and illustrator best known for her tender, luminous depictions of children, developed over a professional career that spanned more than six decades. Born to French parents in Roxbury, Connecticut, in 1918, Beigneux received her formal art training at the National Academy of Design in New York, studying under Gifford Beal, Sidney Dickinson, and Ivan Olinsky, and later continued her studies at the Art Students League of New York with Jon Corbino and Jean Liberté.
Institutional Lineage and the Golden Age of American Illustration
Beigneux's training at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League placed her within the same institutional lineage that produced America's leading illustrators of the era, including Norman Rockwell, and her steady output of magazine cover work for Collier's and Ladies' Home Journal situates her firmly within the golden age of American editorial illustration that Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post covers helped define.
Early Career and Commercial Illustration
Beigneux's career began at a New York commercial art studio, where she was assigned a series of calendar paintings of children for a major insurance company — work that established the sensitive, idealized style of childhood portraiture that would define her practice. She went on to illustrate numerous magazine covers, including work for Collier's and Ladies' Home Journal, bringing her warm, naturalistic style to a broad national audience through the mid-twentieth century.
Fine Art Portraiture and Peer Recognition
Alongside her illustration work, Beigneux built a distinguished career as a fine art portrait painter, working in a realist tradition rooted in careful attention to local color and controlled brushwork. In 1974, Watson-Guptill Publications featured her in the book 6 Artists Paint a Portrait, alongside fellow portraitists Alfred Chadbourn, George Passantino, Charles Reid, Robert Baxter...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Illustration Board Figurative Paintings
MaterialsOil, Illustration Board
