"Elegant", pastel attributed to Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889 -1962)

The painting represents a redhead, with a long neck, wearing her hat and tulle, arranging her blue gloves, Parisian and elegant

Unsigned work, attributed to Jean – Gabriel Domergue, according to the available certificate signed by a local antique dealer, dated 2005 and corroborated by Mr. Noé Willer (painter’s expert). This pastel is in the painter’s archives. On the back of the pastel is written in pencil “old collection Marcel Graindorge” (which is part of the family of the rich collector of paintings Fernand Graindorge).

Framed dimensions: 75 x 62 cm

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (March 4, 1889 – November 16, 1962)

Born in Bordeaux, Domergue studied at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. At the age of seventeen, he exhibited his works at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1906. In 1913, he obtained the second Prix de Rome and won the gold medal at the 1920 edition. He then began to exhibit outside the Salon. After painting landscapes, from the 1920s, he dedicated himself to portraiture. He then became the painter of the ‘Parisienne’. He invented a new type of woman: slim, airy, elegant, with a swan’s neck and large seductive eyes that contemplate the world with desire. He made about 3,000 portraits. He also created clothes for the fashion designer Paul Poiret. From 1955 to 1962, he was curator of the Jacquemart-André museum. Domergue was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. He died on November 16, 1962 in Paris.

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