Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE : Smilling model - Original oil painting, handsigned

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Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE : Modèle souriant - Huile sur panneau Signée 2

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Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE
Smilling model

Oil on panel
Signed lower right
Dimensions of the panel on sight 33 x 24 cm (format 4F)
Presented in a wood frame 48 x 39 cm

In 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.