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Jessie Homer French’s Winter Eden, Chernobyl offered for $21,930 at Phillips Fashionable & Modern Artwork On-line Public sale, New York, on Sept. 16-30, 2025, in New York Metropolis. A self-taught artist, French has been portray for over 4 many years, however her work has solely just lately obtained the eye it deserves.
To be honest, French has at all times taken the view that she paints for herself, by no means entertaining the concept that others could be involved in her work. She credit her late husband, Robin French, a Hollywood expertise agent and producer, in addition to the assistance of an previous household buddy, for serving to her artwork attain a world viewers. Throughout the final couple of years, French has seen her work featured at numerous galleries, the distinguished Venice Biennale and on billboards subsequent to the Excessive Line in New York Metropolis. Nonetheless, in a 2024 interview with the New York InstancesFrench reiterated that she’s undecided “monetary success is sweet for a painter.”
Destruction, each man-made and pure, in addition to dying, are recurring themes in French’s artwork. Regardless of the morbid topics, which embody cemeteries, wildfires and even the biohazardous Chernobyl web site, which seems on our cowl this month, French’s works are a form of juxtaposition—whether or not or not it’s the plush spring blooms alongside graves or the winter calm of wildlife grazing within the snow alongside biohazard indicators.
A few of our different favorites, from Phillips Fashionable & Modern Artwork On-line Public sale, New York, on Sept. 16-30, 2025 in New York Metropolis, seem all through
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