Lying Nude - Georges Pierre Guinegault (1893 - 1983)

Georges Pierre Guinegault (1893 - 1983) - Reclining nude oil on canvas - 1950 approx. 50 cm x 100 cm without frame 62 cm x 112 cm with frame Signed lower center, original white lacquered frame. Georges Guinegault, born in Rennes on March 27, 1893 and died in Dinard on July 26, 1983 Biography In June 1913, a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, he won a prize in the general competition for decorative composition "Bacon de Window”, organized by the State Secretariat for Fine Arts at the National School of Fine Arts in Rennes. Paris. This painter and engraver was later a pupil of Eugène Delâtre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. To begin his career, Guinegault lived in Montparnasse where he rented a villa at 7 rue Jules Chaplain. In 1933, his studio was located rue Dieulafoy in Paris. He paints landscapes of Paris, of the Manche department, notably La Haye, Brittany (Quiberon, Saint-Malo...), the Côte d'Azur (Saint-Tropez), the Pyrenees, Beauce, the Basque Country (1948) as well as orientalist scenes during his stay in Morocco (Marrakech, Meknes…). His Moroccan works are now particularly sought after. He also painted portraits and especially many nudes. He also practiced engraving, at least from 1925 to 1931. The Galerie Lutetia, in New York and rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Paris, published three of his etchings: Rue à Ciboure, Ancien cloître à Ciboure and A the Spanish border. . Exhibitions Collective Salon des Jeunes, National School of Fine Arts in Paris, 1919 (with Bourdelle, Domergue, Oudot, Savin). Salon des Indépendants, Paris, March 1921. From 1921 to 1935 Guinegault exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was a member. Salon of the French School, Grand-Palais, Paris, 1921. Salon of the French School, Grand-Palais, Paris, 1922. Exhibition of Applied Arts, Rennes, April 1922. Salon of the Colonial Society, 1935. Guinegault was also a member of the Colonial. One hundred years of mountain painting, Paris, 1998. Guinebault is a member of the Society of Mountain Painters (1898). Personnel Exhibition at the Galerie Simonson, rue Caumartin in Paris, March 1924. Exhibition at the Galerie Marsan, rue des Pyramides in Paris, May-June 1927. Exhibition at the Studio Scribe, rue Scribe in Paris, March-April 1928. Exhibition Guinegault in the Becquemin-Roupsart gallery, rue Tour-Carrée, Cherbourg, June 1933. Guinegault exhibition entitled "Morocco, Sea, Mountain" at the Bissonnier Gallery, 29 avenue Bosquet in Paris, June-July 1935.