Georges POMERAT - Scène de cabaret à Marseille dans les années 1920

Georges Pomerat Le Pouzin (Ardèche), 1870 - Arles, 1948 Pastel Signed lower right "G. Pomerat" 53 x 49 cm (65 x 60 cm with frame)

This is an interresting interior of a cabaret in Marseille in the 1920s. Several "Montmartois" artistic cabarets settled in Marseille in the 1920s such as le Pupu's, le Chat rieur, La Lune rousse or le Merle blanc.
The painter is Georges Pourrat who was a decorator before settling as a painter at the beginning of the 1920s in Marseille. He exhibited his works in this city where he enjoyed success in the 1920s and 1930s. He then moved to Arles in the 1940s.