Mother And Daughter / Maurice Asselin

Circa 1930, charming oil on canvas with a symbolist tendency. Maurice Asselin is both an engraver and a painter. His talent is expressed magnificently in his nudes, his portraits, his genre scenes which he treats with great finesse. Influenced by his training as an engraver, his painting is fairly synthetic: the touch is sober and elegant, the unadorned decor is reduced to a minimum, the main thing being to highlight the subject. Asselin is very attached to spontaneity. The poses are never academic and the models give the impression of being surprised in their privacy. This aspect is common to all of her work and it characterizes it. He gives his painting the freshness and modernity that made it so successful. Very good frame in old limed oak. Ateliet stamp and numbering on the back. Present at the Pompidou Center, Orléans museums, small palace in Geneva.