"Gustave Assire: Elegant With Hat."
Beautiful full-length portrait of an elegantly dressed woman. The dedication seems to indicate that it is an actress or a singer. Magnificent hat and coat trimmed with feathers and fur. The port and attitude imposes. Montparnasse frame in good condition: 57 x 80 cmGustave Assire 1870 - 1941 French painter Student of JP Laurens and Constant from 1894 to 1896
Gustave Assire born in Angers, was at the Académie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, student of JP Laurens, Cormon and Gustave Moreau. He exhibited to French Artists from 1900 and at the Salon des Indépendants from 1927 to 1931. He illustrated a number of works including "Mac Orlan, Secret images of Paris" in 1930.