Paris / Moulin Rouge-place Blanche / Jacques Endzel (1927-2014) / Oil On Canvas

Jacques Endzel (1927–2014) – The Moulin Rouge, Place Blanche

47 x 56 unframed
66 x 75 framed
signed lower right

This vibrant and colorful painting by Jacques Endzel, a painter of the New School of Paris, depicts a lively scene in Place Blanche with the famous Moulin Rouge in the background. Although the scene evokes interwar Paris, with its vintage cars and popular silhouettes, the work was painted in the 1950s, a period when Endzel developed an expressive and free style, heir to the great colorists of the Montparnasse school. The artist strives to revive, with emotion and energy, the atmosphere of a popular and festive Paris, in a vein close to Vlaminck, Soutine or Gen Paul. A member of the New School of Paris, Endzel is part of a generation of post-war artists who reconnect with expressive figuration and urban memory. The painting is presented in a very beautiful carved and gilded wooden frame decorated with scrolls and shells.