SUMMER ONLINE ART SALE 29 June 2026

102 96 Béatrice Egan (fl.1920s) LES BLANCHISSEUSES oil on canvas signed lower left; signed, titled and with Milmo-Penny Fine Art label on reverse 25.50 by 32in. (64.8 by 81.3cm) Frame Dimensions: 33.5 by 39.5in. (85.1 by 100.3cm) Provenance: Property from Runfold Manor, Surrey; That sale, Christie’s, 25 October 2005, lot 380; with Milmo-Penny Fine Art, Dublin; Ross’s, 11 December 2005, lot 40 Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1931, catalogue no. 807 According to Benezit’s dictionary of painters, Beatrice Egan was an American painter, born in London, who studied under George Elmer Browne, presumably in Paris. Browne hailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts who was resident in Paris. However, according to the Paris Salon catalogue, she was born in Horley, Surrey. Her address is given as 31 bis, rue Campagne-Premiere, one of the most illustrious artist’s studios in Paris. The famous art nouveau building was designed by Alexandre Bigot in 1911 and is adorned with decoration by the céramiste André Arfidson. Beatrice exhibited an earlier work at the Salon in 1928 entitled Au Clair de Lune and apart from this, very little else is known about her career. There is a possibility that she married and exhibited under a different name. This painting may have been done during summer vacation when it was customary for students to go into the countryside to paint. Many went to Brittany where the lodgings were inexpensive and models and subject matter could be found in abundance. In the present work, the washed clothes have been laid out to dry in the sun while a group of women work at trestle tabled beneath an open shelter. €1,500-€2,000 (£1,290-£1,720 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot96