Georges De Sonneville Drawing Interior Scene, Pencil On Paper, Signed And Stamped 1906

Very beautiful pencil drawing on paper by Georges de Sonneville. Represents an interior scene with a density of characters gathered around a group of musicians. Very good quality of construction of the attitudes of the figures. Georges Préveraud de Sonneville (1889-1979) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Bordeaux. Upon his arrival in Bordeaux in 1903, he took painting lessons with the Symbolist painter Paul Antin. He then attended the Rosa Bonheur Academy. He left for Paris in 1913, where he met the nabbis at the Académie Ranson – Paul Sérusier, Maurice Denis. He alternated moments of life between Paris and Bordeaux, which made him a representative of modernism in Bordeaux, in the wake of painters such as André Lhote, whom he frequented from the 1910s. He co-founded in 1928 with Jean- Loup Simian the Salon of independent artists from Bordeaux. During the 1920s, he displayed great activity as a landscape painter. He is also recognized as a draftsman and caricaturist. A Georges-de-Sonneville museum was erected in homage to the work of the artist and his wife in Gradignan in 2004.