DOMERGUE Jean Gabriel Painting 20th century Young Woman with a Scarf Oil On Isorel Signed Figure in the Willer Archives

DOMERGUE Jean Gabriel (1889/1962)
Young woman with a headscarf.
Oil on hardboard signed lower left.
55x46 cm
Figure in the archives of Mr Noé Willer.
Museums: Cannes - Domergue Museum - Paris: Carnavalet Museum (Seligman Collection)
Literature: Bénézit - Dictionary of the little masters of painting by Pierre Cabanne and Gérald Schurr - Dictionary of Montmartre painters in the 19th and 20th centuries by André Roussard - "Jean - Gabriel Domergue: art and fashion" by Gérard - Louis Soyer -
DOMERGUE Jean-Gabriel Born in 1889 in Bordeaux – Died in 1962 in Paris.
Painter of figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes, flowers, gouache painter, watercolourist, designer, poster artist.
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, of an impressive number of leading professors of the time: Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Fernand Humbert, François Flameng. Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE seemed, at the beginning, destined for a career as a landscaper, but he very quickly became the painter of nudes and semi-nudes, of moderate aggressiveness, of mischievous coquetry, which made his reputation and his fortune with a bourgeois clientele more naughty than liberated, whose ultimate audacity consisted of sending the wife there for the purpose of a portrait; whatever it was, the portrait executed with a suspicious virtuosity revealed her thin, as if stretched, the bust thrust forward in a movement of offer, the protruding chest slightly revealed inadvertently, the back arched in a tight-fitting outfit, a swan's neck surmounted by a made-up face, with a mischievous nose, of a Parisian passe-partout, between showy elegance and hidden vulgarity. Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1906, at the age of 17, which suggests a great precocious skill, which his work has not denied. Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE obtained a gold medal in 1920. In 1927, he moved into a sumptuous villa on the heights of Cannes.
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