Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE: Serenade of love, Original signed drawing
Serenade of Love, 1948
Mixed media ink, graphite and collage
Signed in ink
On vellum 32.5 x 25 cm
INFORMATION: Drawing authenticated on the back by the Parisian publishing and bookstore company. This original drawing was made for the album "Quand on parole d'amour" published by Collection du Lierre - Paris in 1948.
Excellent condition
Lead pencil :
The lead pencil is a drawing tool. It is made of lead, silver or lead-based alloys, bronze or tin.
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.
