Nude - Jean-louis Boussingault (1883-1943)

An oil on canvas (re-lined) measuring 55X46 cm representing a naked boy circa 1922 monogrammed LB by Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883-1943)

Born in Paris, Boussingault frequented the painters André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Luc-Albert Moreau, Valdo Barbey and André Villeboeuf in the 1900s: they were all students at the Julian Academy and then at the Académie de la Palette where he has as teachers Charles Guérin, Georges Desvallières, and Pierre Laprade. During the summer of 1908, this group of friends went on holiday to Saint-Tropez and painted together. For a time, Dunoyer and Boussingault shared the same studio in Paris. He exhibited for the first time in 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants.