France / Latvia: 'En banlieue parisienne' (In the Suburbs of Paris). Oil on canvas, Jazeps Grosvalds (1891-1920), 1914

Jazeps Grosvalds (Latvian: Jāzeps Grosvalds) (April 24, 1891 – February 1, 1920) was a Latvian painter from Riga. He is now regarded as one of Latvia's finest painters and has several works on display in the Latvian National Museum of Art. His style is a combination of European Modernism and Abstract with a distinctly Latvian influence. A student of Simon Hollósy's school in Munich, Grosvalds went to Paris in 1910 where he studied at several private academies until 1914. In addition to this, he immersed himself in the flourishing art scene of the time, studying both modern art (Cézanne, Degas, Renoir) as well as the old masters.

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