Modern Art Deco Painting Portrait Of A Man, Nude, Antique Sculpture In The Jean Terles Workshop

Beautiful old painting circa 1930, oil on canvas bearing the studio stamp on the back Jean Terles Paris, representing the portrait of a nude man after the antique in a studio of an art school in Paris. The canvas is mounted on a modern frame in the format 73 cm x 44 cm. Jean Terles studied at the Beaux Arts de Paris after a degree in modern literature.
He entered the studio of Lucien Simon, and continued his training at the Casa Velasquez. He stayed in Morocco during the war then returned to Paris where he rubbed shoulders with Yves Brayer and Jean Dubuffet, among others. He exhibited alongside them in the major Parisian galleries. He also worked as an illustrator and taught at the Gobelins school. He returned to Lot et Garonne at the end of the 70s and continued to work and exhibit.