Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE - Young girl with a pink scarf - Oil on panel, Signed
Young girl with a pink scarf
Oil on hardboard
Signed lower right
On hardboard 40 x 33 cm
Presented in a gilded wooden frame 56 x 49 cm
Very good condition, small surface defects and wear to the frame
Dimensions :
- Height : 40 cm
- Width : 33 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.
