William MALHERBE (Bucharest, 1884 - Paris, 1951). Young woman with a flower basket. Oil on oval canvas signed lower right, countersigned on the back on the frame. Top. Height : 119 cm - Width : 98 cm Original frame in gilded composition (missing). French painter and illustrator rooted in the post-impressionist tradition, a disciple of Bonnard and Renoir, William Malherbe met with success in the 1930s by exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne and at the famous Durand-Ruel gallery. The Second World War led him to flee across the Atlantic to the United States, where he exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. His work is marked by outdoor compositions, still lifes and nudes in soft and light colours.