Pot Of Purple Tulips In A Drape. Jean De Botton. Circa 1930..

Pot of purple tulips in a drape, circa 1930, works from this period are very rare and sought after, as most of them have been destroyed. Jean de Botton (1898 - 1978), was born in Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece to a French family, he studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris under the aegis of Antoine Bourdelle for sculpture and Bernard Naudin for painting. He began exhibiting at the Salon des Indépendants in 1920, then at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Tuileries. At the same time, he designed furniture and posters. In 1933, he carried out a veritable auto-da-fé of his works by immolating 350 of his paintings with the aim, according to him, of renewing his painting. From the 1935s his fame was worldwide and he exhibited on all continents. In 1937, he was the only painter invited to the coronation of King George VI and presented an exhibition in London. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Winston Churchill, Jules Romains, Paul Valery, Ernest Hemingway and, among others, Charlie Chaplin, bought his paintings. Considered by some critics as "one of the greatest painters of our time", his works are kept in numerous public collections including: the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the High Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of the History of France at the Palace of Versailles, the Luxembourg Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, among others.