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Domergue Jean-gabriel (1889-1962) "lucie With The Blue Scarf" Woman Usa Bordeaux France Paris
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962)
"Lucie"
Oil on panel,
Signed lower left,
Titled and numbered on the back by the artist: "131 Lucie".
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Brun-Perazzone firm in Paris.
A beautiful work by the renowned French painter from Bordeaux, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, depicting a young redhead named "Lucie" against a blue background. This elegant young woman wears a blue scarf tied around her neck and red lipstick, like a Belle Époque pin-up.
The work is rendered with finesse and delicacy by the artist to best showcase the features and expressiveness of his model.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, a distant cousin of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, considered himself the inventor of the pin-up. He also depicted couples at social events and nude women in his compositions, often in a stereotypical manner.
His favorite subject remained women.
A student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under painters Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Ferdinand Humbert, and François Flameng, Jean-Gabriel Domergue exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1906.
In 1936 and 1938, he served on the jury for the Miss France pageant.
In 1938, he created a composition featuring a nude woman for the campaign for Rigaud's new perfume, Féérie. He also designed the poster for the first Cannes Film Festival.
In 1950, he was elected a member of the Institut de France and served as curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris from 1955 to 1962, where he organized exhibitions of paintings by Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Goya.
Today, his works are held in numerous public and private collections.
Dimensions : 24 x 19 cm unframed and 42 x 36.5 cm with its Montparnasse carved wooden frame.
For more information, please contact us.
"Lucie"
Oil on panel,
Signed lower left,
Titled and numbered on the back by the artist: "131 Lucie".
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Brun-Perazzone firm in Paris.
A beautiful work by the renowned French painter from Bordeaux, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, depicting a young redhead named "Lucie" against a blue background. This elegant young woman wears a blue scarf tied around her neck and red lipstick, like a Belle Époque pin-up.
The work is rendered with finesse and delicacy by the artist to best showcase the features and expressiveness of his model.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, a distant cousin of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, considered himself the inventor of the pin-up. He also depicted couples at social events and nude women in his compositions, often in a stereotypical manner.
His favorite subject remained women.
A student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under painters Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Ferdinand Humbert, and François Flameng, Jean-Gabriel Domergue exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1906.
In 1936 and 1938, he served on the jury for the Miss France pageant.
In 1938, he created a composition featuring a nude woman for the campaign for Rigaud's new perfume, Féérie. He also designed the poster for the first Cannes Film Festival.
In 1950, he was elected a member of the Institut de France and served as curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris from 1955 to 1962, where he organized exhibitions of paintings by Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Goya.
Today, his works are held in numerous public and private collections.
Dimensions : 24 x 19 cm unframed and 42 x 36.5 cm with its Montparnasse carved wooden frame.
For more information, please contact us.
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