Lot 531 | Louis Ritman (American, 1889-1963), "In the Flower Garden (Frieseke~dq~s Garden, Giverny)", c.1916;
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oil/canvas, 28" x 24", signed. Ritman~dq~s family immigrated from Russia to Chicago in 1900. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (and meets Lawton Parker) and at the Art Institute of Chicago. He exhibited as early as 1908 in Chicago. He traveled to France in 1910 and Giverny in 1911, where he met Richard Miller and Frederick Frieseke. For the next several years, he traveled between Paris, Giverny, and Chicago. In the summer of 1916, he returned to Giverny from Chicago, and spent a great deal of time with the Frieseke family. Richard Love, in his book, Louis Ritman, from Chicago to Giverny, writes, "Ritman continues to isolate the figure, but now the woman is older and pushed irreverently into the middle ground" "...an obsession to record the beauty of a lovely young lady has been replaced with a fascination with surface and color..." "Ritman provides his model some dignity of individual form, but it is clear that in works...from the summer of 1916, he has no interest in giving his figures individuality—in these works he has finally become an impressionist in the manner of Monet.".
