"young Nude Oriental Woman, Lying Down", Jean Dutey, Circa 1930.

Oil on canvas depicting a young, nude Oriental woman lying on a sheet. She wears a red turban, silver bracelets on her wrists and ankles, and possibly a Berber tattoo on her forehead. Signed lower left J.DUTEY, circa 1930. Born in Orléans, died in the Congo, he is known as an Orientalist painter, hunter, and writer. Heir to a family of industrialists and military men, this dilettante adventurer had every means to satisfy his passions: writer, avid hunter, and painter, he was a colorful figure, worthy of the great adventurers in Africa of the first half of the 20th century. Among other works, he published a personal adventure story in 1948 entitled "Facing the Giants of the Bush." As a painter, he produced portraits of women full of truth, as well as landscapes. He died in Pointe-Noire, in French Equatorial Africa (Congo). He does not appear to have exhibited in any official painters' salon, which is quite in keeping with his character. One of his paintings is on deposit at the Boulogne-Billancourt Museum. See "French Orientalist Painters, Index of Painters" http://www.orientaliste.org. In its original frame, 117 x 82 cm.