" Portrait Of A Woman" 1940s - Honor David - Gell -

All the brilliance and glamour of the 1940s in this portrait of a woman: the dress with its large bow and puffed sleeves, the hairstyle, but above all the light on that joli face, with its high cheekbones and full lips, evokes Harcourt photographs and the film icons from yesterday, Simone Signoret, Ava Gardner, Gene Tierney, or Jennifer Jones.

The painting is signed "Honor Gell."
Honor Mary Ryland David-Gell was an English painter born in 1903 to a colonel father.
Honor Gell's first husband was Emmanuel David, a gallery owner in Paris.
Following the premature and tragic death of her first child, she turned away from conventional medicine and became interested in the revolutionary ideas of the Durville brothers, physicians, to the point of leaving the capital for the Île du Levant, where the Durvilles had created the "naturist" village of Heliopolis.
In Levant, Honor David-Gell, a free and independent woman, painted and fell in love with Marcel Lassalle, the island's handyman. (See photos online)

Oil on canvas in very good overall condition; a few tiny cracks and small chips visible in the photos do not detract from the overall appearance.
Size : 28,7 x 23,6 Inches ( for sale without frame)