AFA Autumn 2018

Autumn 92 www.afamag.com | www.incollect.com Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange (French, 1877–1958), Garden at La Hune, Saint-Tropez, 1909, oil on canvas, 25½ x 31 ⁄ in. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, The Holliday Collection, 79.290 © Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange. Alessandro Mendini, designer (Italian, b. 1931), Atelier Mendini, manufacturer, Poltrona di Proust Lounge Chair, 1978, painted wood and fabric, 42⅝ x 41⅜ x 30 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Robertine Daniels Art Fund in Memory of Her Late Husband, Richard Monroe Fairbanks, Sr., and Her Late Son, Michael Fairbanks, 2013.15 © Alessandro Mendini. The Indianapolis Museum of Art has one of the best collections of Pointilism and Neo-Impressionism in the country. It was only natural to pair Mendini’s Poltrona di Proust—which takes its surface decoration directly from a Paul Signac painting—with a painting by Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange, Signac’s longtime companion.