Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE - A young simple girl, lithograph
A young simple girl
Lithograph on stone on Vellum paper
Signed in the plate
40 x 31 cm
Excellent condition
INFORMATIONS:
This lithograph was created to illustrate the portfolio "La Parisienne" (text by Cécil Saint-Laurent) published in 1956 by Joseph Foret and printed in the workshops of Dominique Viglino. The edition has been limited to 197 copies
Dimensions :
- Height : 40 cm
- Width : 31 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.
