ABOUT
Galerie Darmesin offers historical musician memorabilia and fine art. All items come from the collection of Daniel Darmesin Flanagan. Daniel is a professional violinist based in Berkeley, CA who specializes in historical violinists and French impressionist/post-impressionist paintings.
Daniel is on the violin faculty at University of California at Berkeley and Concertmaster of Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera. He is the founder of The Bow and the Brush, an organization that commissions and performs music inspired by visual art and performs traditional repertoire with period paintings. He is a member of American String Teachers Association, American Composers Alliance, and American Federation of Musicians. In addition to promoting living composers and artists of diverse backgrounds, Daniel regularly features his art collection to host fundraisers for charities and gives presentations on historical violinists at universities.
"Galerie Darmesin is named after my maternal grandmother, Lucienne Sauve (née Darmesin). She was a milliner in France in the 1920’s and 30’s, then in Chicago after WWII. All the young men of the Darmesin family, including her brother Marcel, were killed in the first world war, and nobody lived to carry on the name. Her father, Leon, was a piano and furniture maker in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. Leon survived the trenches of WWI but died from kidney failure in 1941 during the German occupation. Later the same year, Lucienne's husband, Ernest Sauve, was able to go to Lisbon with their two babies while Lucienne and her mother escaped through the Basque mountains with the help of the French underground. They reunited in Lisbon, where they got on a boat to New York, then a train to Detroit, eventually settling in Chicago."​
The Darmesin ladies and Lucienne's hats
