The Dance By Jean Bertrand Pégot-ogier (1877-1915) Pegot Ogier

“The dance”, oil on canvas signed lower right JPégot-Ogier, countersigned on the back and located “Doëlan” (Finistère). Work having been re-lined. Thickness of the material and surface cracks, the artist having probably painted this scene on another canvas below. The semicircle format, which we find for this work, was frequently used by Jean-Bertrand Pegot-Ogier. Gilded carved wooden frame. Dimensions of the canvas 35x45.5 cm Total dimensions, with frame, 48x59 cm. Jean Bertrand Pégot-Ogier, sometimes shortened to Jean Pégot-Ogier, born in Salamanca in Spain, spent his youth in Hennebont. Self-taught in painting, he trained in contact with the painters of Concarneau and exhibited in Parisian salons. In 1904, he moved away from Concarneau. In 1909, he moved to Paris and worked as an illustrator for Gils Blas and Le Breton de Paris. He exhibited at the Société des Artistes Bretons in Nantes, at the Artistic and Literary Society of the West. In 1912, he became a member of the Salon dAutomne. It is divided between Paris and its favorite places Hennebont, Doëlan, Le Pouldu, Pont-Scorff. Released from his training with the painters of Concarneau, he alternately uses Impressionism to translate the fugitive of the moment and synthetism to make the scenes lasting. Pégot-Ogier is part of the second generation of the Pont-Aven School. Mobilized in Lorient in September 1914 then hit by a shell, he died on October 2, 1915, in Moulin Sous Touvent, in the Oise. "