Jean Terles Old Drawing Portrait Musician The Flutist Concert Flute Ink Wash 1930

Beautiful old drawing circa 1930, mixed technique on paper (ink wash and white gouache highlight), the stamp of the Jean Terles Paris estate on the back, representing the tightly framed portrait of a musician playing the flute. Jean Terles studied at the Beaux Arts in Paris after a degree in modern literature. He entered the studio of Lucien Simon and rubbed shoulders with Jean Dubuffet and Yves Brayer, among others. He continued his training at the Casa Velasquez and stayed in Morocco during the war before returning to Paris. He then exhibited in the major Parisian galleries. He also worked as an illustrator for publishing houses and illustrated the classics and moderns (Emile Zola, Georges Bernanos, Henri Maurois, etc.), then taught at the Gobelins school. He returned to Lot et Garonne at the end of the 1970s and continued to work and exhibit.