Léon Lehmann, Still Life With A Bottle, Circa 1930

Léon Lehmann is a French painter and draftsman, a former student of Gustave Moreau's workshop where he rubbed shoulders with Matisse, Marquet and Rouault, whose great friend he became. First passionate about military subjects in his youth, he was then influenced by the post-Impressionist, Fauve and Cézanian avant-garde, then turned after the First World War towards a very personal and original painting which would make him successful in the good Parisian galleries (B.Weill, Druet, Blot, Bernheim-Jeune, K.Granoff...). His works are present in around twenty museums in France and abroad. The work we are presenting is a still life with fine composition and light. We feel the legacy of Rembrandt and Chardin, whom Lehmann greatly admired. The work is signed lower right.