DOMERGUE Jean Gabriel Painting XXth Century Socialite Painting "Lilian" Oil on isorel signed

DOMERGUE Jean Gabriel (1889/1962)
Lilian.
Oil on isorel signed lower left, titled "Lilian" and numbered 18 on the back.
24x19 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 Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, with an impressive number of leading professors of the time: Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Fernand Humbert, François Flameng.
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE seems, at his beginnings, promised a career as a landscape painter, but very early on he became the painter of nudes and semi-nudes, of moderate aggressiveness, of a mischievous coquetry, which made his reputation and his fortune. with a bourgeois clientele more polish than liberated, whose ultimate daring consisted in sending the wife there to finish the portrait; whoever she was, the portrait executed with suspicious virtuosity revealed her slender, as if stretched out, the bust slender forward in a tender movement, the protruding breasts slightly inadvertently revealed, the back arched in a tight dress, a swan neck surmounted by a made-up face, with a mischievous nose, a Parisienne mat, between showy elegance and hidden vulgarity.
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1906, at the age of 17, which suggests a great precocious skill, which his work has not denied. Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE obtains a gold medal in 1920. In 1927, he moved to a sumptuous villa on the heights of Cannes.
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