Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE: Couple in evening dress, Lithograph and stencil signed
Couple in evening dress, 1948
Lithograph enhanced with stencil
Signed in the plate
On BFK Rives 33 x 25.5 cm
Excellent condition
Jean-Gabriel Domergue :
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a french painter trained at the Paris National School of Fine Arts. In 1938, he created a composition with a naked young woman for the new perfume "Féerie" by Rigaud. The following year, he created a poster for the first Cannes Film Festival. In 1950, he is named member of the Institut de France, and became the curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André from 1955 to 1962. The parisian woman was one of his favourite subjects, he refered to himself as the "inventor of the pin-up". Nadine Lhopitalier, (Nadine de Rothschild) was one of his models. The artist died in 1962 in Paris.
