Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE - La Parisienne - Lithograph signed
Study for the portfolio "La Parisienne" (1956)
Black and white lithograph on Arches paper Signed in the plate and by hand
Board dimensions: 32.5 x 40.5 cm
Artwork: 27 x 17 cm
Untrimmed margins Good R/V condition
NOTES Edited for the portfolio "La Parisienne" (text by Cécile Saint-Laurent) published in 1956 by Joseph Foret. The lithographs constituting the original edition of the book (in 212 copies)
were
printed under the direction of the artist by Dominique Viglino in Bourg-La-Reine.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Monod No. 10080
Dimensions :
- Height : 32 cm
- Width : 40 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.
