Dietz Edzard (1893 – 1963)
Title: ” Promenade de Dimanche ” (Sunday Walk)
Size: 22″ x 18″ ( 24 3/4″ x 28 1/8″ framed ) …………$6500.00
oil on canvas, signed lower right; titled on the reverse; signed on stretcher
Provenance: Galerie Cardo 61, Avenue Kleber Paris
Stretcher stamped: “The Paris American Art Co. 2, rue Bonaparte – Telephone DANton 09.93″ used from 1939-1960 (or later).
A wonderfully composed impressionist painting by Dietz Edzard of a Sunday walk. We have the atmospheric blue sky serving as a backdrop for the central figure of a beautiful Parisian women holding a bouquet of flowers. The adorable young girl entwines the women’s arm as she appears to be gazing in astonishment of some elevated event. To the left a crowd of spectators have gathered to view a sailing regatta while multi-national flags fluttering about. Without a doubt, this has to be one of the artist greatest accomplishments.
German born Dietz Edzard was a painter inspired by the works of the French impressionist and enjoyed a very successful art career during most of his life. His only formal art training was under Max Beckmann in Berlin. By 1930 he had settled in Paris where he lived and exhibited until the end of his life. In 1938 Edzard married Suzanne Eisendieck who was an accomplished artist herself and also painted in the impressionist style. The Parisian life style was a common theme for the couple’s work and they began exhibiting their paintings together in the 1950s untils Dietz death in 1963. From 1955 to 1962, the couple had annual exhibitions at the Edgardo Acosta Gallery in Los Angeles; and from 1957 to 1962, at the Wally Findlay Gallery in New York, Chicago and Palm Beach, Florida. Edzard’s last exhibition was at the Hammer Gallery in New York in 1962.
Selected Museums
Art Institute of Chicago
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Promenade de Dimanche
22″ x 18″
Copyright of the artist and or the artist estate.