Robert Pougheon (1886-1955). Roses And Cigarettes On A Red Tablecloth. Oil On Canvas Board.

Robert POUGHEON (1886-1955)
Roses and cigarettes on the red tablecloth
Oil on canvas board,
Signed lower right
Work: 41 x 33 cm
Frame: 44.5 x 37 cm

Very good condition

Trained from 1902 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Robert Pougheon joined the Beaux Arts de Paris in 1907 where he studied under Fernand Cormon and Jean-Paul Laurens. Winner of the Prix de Rome for painting in 1914, he stayed at the Villa Medici from 1919 to 1923. Exhibiting regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français upon his return, Pougheon fulfilled several commissions in the 1930s, notably for the Church of the Holy Spirit in Paris and for the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology in 1937. A professor at the Beaux Arts and the Académie Julian, he briefly directed the Académie de France in Rome during the Occupation and became curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André after the Liberation.

While Robert Pougheon is known for his ambitious compositions in a Mannerist vein of Art Deco, his floral representations are more intimate. Like 17th-century vanitas, time seems suspended in the evanescence of the elements. In restricted chromatic ranges, the artist simplifies forms and seeks the essential. Observing the contemplative mystery of nature, Robert Pougheon sublimates the poetry of the passing of time.

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