PAULETTE VAN ROEKENS Still Life with Fruit and Bottle.
Oil on board. 380x455 mm; 15x18 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, with the label; private collection, Connecticut; private collection, Chicago.
Roekens (1896-1988) studied in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and lived in and around the city for most her life. She married the artist Arthur Meltzer in 1927. Roekens exhibited frequently at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Sketch Club as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
