Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) - Pastel Of A Portrait Of A Woman

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) - Pastel of A Portrait Of A Woman Pastel representing a portrait of a woman called Lou in Yssingeaux, a rural town located in the Haute-Loire department (Auvergne). A town that the artist has painted a lot. Signed lower right Dating from 1917 The pastel is protected by a glass, hence the presence of reflections in the photo. Visible at the Courcelles Antiquités Gallery, at 97, rue de Courcelles, in the 17th arrondissement, Paris. Born in 1870, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Gustave POETZSCH is a painter who left behind a large number of paintings and drawings. Still little known some time ago, a sale from the back of his studio brought the artist to light. He went to Paris to perfect his artistic apprenticeship and entered the studio of Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), the same frequented by Matisse and the future Fauves. He was the husband of Marie-Louise Aulagne, a renowned milliner from the Faubourg Saint-Honoré. He painted portraits and landscapes including landscapes around Velay. The many stays of the artist in Brittany, in Normandy in Deauville where he stays, in the Arcachon basin or in Haute Loire where the family has a house, will inspire his works imprinted with gaiety and insouciance (like the many works on the beaches of Deauville). From 1895, he exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon des Artistes Français and the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He is one of the painters who best embodies the Belle Époque, praising feminine beauty and its preparations, helped in this by his wife Marie-Louise.