Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron

Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron (23 August 1891 – 30 March 1949) was a French watercolour painter known for her still lifes of flowers. She also painted war damaged churches in the 1940s.

Life Lemoine-Lagron was born in the Paris suburb of Gournay-sur-Marne in 1891. Her father Jules Lemoine was a physicist and assistant professor who would be awarded the title of Officer of the Legion of Honor. She was trained from 1909 to 1911 at the National School of Decorative Arts. Afterwards she married a jewellery designer named Lagron when she was 22 and her professional name became "Thérèse Lemoine-Lagron". Lemoine-Lagron would buy vases from antique dealers and then arrange flowers from local florists as the subject of her paintings.

Lemoine-Lagron died in 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine at her home 63 rue Boursault, Paris.