Alice Bailly

Alice Bailly (Swiss, 1872-1938)
Self-Portrait
1917
Oil on canvas, 32 x 23 1/2 in.

Alice Bailly was born February 25, 1872 in Geneva.  She was a Swiss painter and multi-media artist.  Alice attended Ecol d Art in Geneva, where she studied under Hugues Bovy and Denise Sarkissof. In 1904 she lived in Paris until World War I where she was influenced by many well known great artist, Alice was influenced by Fauvism, Futurism and cubism.  Alice Bailly was best known for her 50 tableaux-laine (tables wool) works of art.  Tableaux-laine is works of art Alice did using colored strands of wool as a painter would apply brush strokes.  Alice was also know for mixed media art, she would combine such things as oil paint with colored paper, bronze foil, glass beads and, felt.  Alice died in 1938 of Tuberculosis.   Our theme is self-portraits of women artists; I picked this painting by Alice Bailly because of influence of fauvism, futurism and cubism.  To me her self-portrait is not one you would typically see from a woman of her era.