"Domergue Jg Painting XXth Century Socialite Painting Pretty Blonde Bust Oil On Signed Isorel"
DOMERGUE Jean Gabriel ( 1889 / 1962 )
Pretty blonde in bust.
Oil on isorel signed at the bottom left.
32 x 24 cm
Appears in the archives of Mr. Noé Willer.
Museums: Cannes - Domergue Museum - Paris: Carnavalet Museum ( Seligman Collection )
Literature: Bénézit - Dictionary of the little masters of painting by Pierre Cabanne and Gérald Schurr - Dictionary of the painters of Montmartre in the 19th and 20th centuries by André Roussard - "Jean - Gabriel Domergue: art and fashion" by Gérard - Louis Soyer -
DOMERGUE Jean-Gabriel
Born in 1889 in Bordeaux - Died in 1962 in Paris .
Painter of figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes, flowers, gouache painter, watercolorist, draftsman, poster artist.
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE is a student, at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, of an impressive number of professorial luminaries of the time: Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Fernand Humbert, François Flameng.
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE seems, at his beginnings, promised to a career as a landscape painter, but he very soon became the painter of nudes and half-nudes, of moderate aggressiveness, of a mischievous coquetry, which made his reputation and his fortune with a bourgeois clientele more polite than liberated, whose ultimate audacity consisted in dispatching the wife there for the end of the portrait, whatever she was, the portrait executed with suspicious virtuosity revealed her thin, as if stretched, the bust slender forward in an offering movement, the chest protruding slightly inadvertently revealed, the loins arched in a tight-fitting toilet, a swan's neck surmounted by a cut-off face, with a mutinous nose, of Parisian passe-partout, between showy elegance and hidden vulgarity.
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1906, at the age of 17, which suggests a great precocious skill, which his work has not denied. Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE obtained a gold medal in 1920. In 1927, he settled in a sumptuous villa on the heights of Cannes.
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