Henri Jean Pontoy (1888-1968) Orientalist Drawing Berber Woman Morocco Tuareg

Beautiful oriental drawing, mixed technique of charcoal and blood enhanced with gouache.

This drawing represents a Berber woman carrying water, we notice in the background the traditional kasbah.

Very good condition.
Dimensions without frame: 36 x 25 cm
Dimensions with frame: 46 x 34 cm

Henri Pontoy (1888-1968)

Henri (or Henry also known as Henri Jean) Pontoy is a French painter born in Reims on February 5, 1888 and died in 1968.
He entered the École des beaux-arts de Paris, in Luc-Olivier Merson’s studio, and exhibited his prints at the Salon des artistes français, and his paintings at the Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts, the Salon d'Automne, and the Salon des artistes orientalistes algériens.
In 1926, he received a travel grant from the colonial society of French artists, which enabled him to travel to North Africa, notably to Tunisia, where he became a member of the Salon Tunisien that same year, Then it went to Morocco and French West Africa. He lived several years around 1930 in Ouarzazate where he met Jacques Majorelle. 
He became professor of arts and letters at the Lycée Moulay Idriss in Fez. He won 1933 the Grand Prix of the city of Algiers. He left after the war in 1947, with Majorelle, in Guinea, Ivory Coast and Cameroon (he won the Cameroon prize in 1951). Its fresh and airy palette and warm colors, both in oils and watercolors, have always met with great success. He is one of the last French representatives of neoclassical orientalism to reach its peak in the interwar period.

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