Jean-Gabriel Domergue - Young girl with boyish haircut - Original pastel drawing, Signed
Young girl with a boyish haircut
Original pastel drawing
Signed lower right
On vellum 31 x 22.5 at sight
Presented in a gilded wooden frame 52 x 43 cm
Very good condition, small defects on the edge of the sheet, trace of crease at the bottom, small defects on the frame (see photos)
Dimensions :
- Height : 31 cm
- Width : 22 cm
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.
