Portrait Of A Tennis Player, Oil On Canvas, Maurice Joron, Circa 1930

Oil on canvas representing a tennis player in the 1930s, holding his racket under his left arm, his right arm resting on the latter. The portrait is elegant and large (141x92), difficult to find, and one can find an impression of Henri Cochet, or Vivian Mac Grath. Maurice JORON, born in Paris in 1883, died in Vaucresson in 1937. He entered Paris, at the Beaux-Arts, in the studio of Fernand Cormon. But academic teaching does not appeal to him. He meets Madame Tavernier, who runs a literary and artistic salon in Paris, and who becomes his patron. Wealthy, she hired a tutor for him and took her protégé to Florence, Naples, Venice, Amsterdam, to study Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he received an out-of-competition medal in 1909. That year, he began a career as a portrait painter, then became a designer for "Le Crapouillot" and "La guerre documentée" from 1915. After a large state order for the 1937 Universal Expo, he died after a short illness. Museums: Bry sur Marne, Boulogne Billancourt Period frame, as well as the canvas. The board needs cleaning.