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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on paper laid on board
Signed: Signed lower left / original artists label verso
Dated: c. 1940
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 32.00" x 26.00" (81.3cm x 66.0cm)
Framed Size: 37.00" x 31.00" (94.0cm x 78.7cm)
Provenance: Private UK collection
c. 1910
Oil on original canvas
£5,950.00
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Nu avec des fleurs
by Georges D'Espagnat
1924
Oil on paper laid on panel
£5,950.00
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Dimanche
by Paul Elie Gernez
1918
Oil on original canvas
£51,000.00
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Portrait of a Girl
by Alfredo Guttero
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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Le Café de la Place Blanche
by Elie Anatole Pavil
c. 1930
Oil on board
£4,950.00
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Nu dans les nuages
by Albert BraÏtou-Sala
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£3,250.00
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Pierret et Monocole
by Armand Francois Henrion
c. 1910
Oil on original canvas
£8,400.00
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Nu avec des fleurs
by Georges D'Espagnat
1897
Oil on panel
£5,750.00
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The Young Hunter
by Victor Gabriel Gilbert
1946
Oil on canvas
£5,200.00
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Le Coucher
by Pierre De Belay
c. 1920
Oil on panel
£4,950.00
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Nu Couche
by Fernand Toussaint
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,750.00
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Joyeux pierrot
by Armand Francois Henrion
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,950.00
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Pierrot Surpris!
by Armand Francois Henrion
Jean Domergue studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was a pupil of an impressive array of prominent teachers of the time, including Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Fernand Humbert and François Flameng.
In 1927 he moved into Villa Fiesole in Cannes, which was said to have been most luxurious, and which he bequeathed to the town. It was also said that he owned good paintings. He was elected a member of the institute and, in 1955, made curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André, property of the institute. Up until 1962 he organised large exhibitions in the museum of works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Baudelaire, Van Gogh, Berthe Morisot and Goya, as if to dispel any misunderstandings over his taste and personal judgements of art.
His early works suggested a career as a landscape painter. However, he soon became a painter of nudes and semi-nudes.
While his work sold well and was popular with the periodicals of the time, especially L'Illustration, since his death art books have hardly mentioned him.
He first exhibited at the age of 17 at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1906. He received an honourable mention in 1908 and a gold medal in 1920, having been designated hors concours. In 2002 the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux held a retrospective of his work, and in 2003 around 30 of his works from the English collection of Janet and Howard Thomas were given to Villa Domergue in Cannes.
c. 1908
Oil on panel
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Deauville
by Jean Gabriel Domergue - SOLD
1940
Oil on artists board
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Dressing
by Jean Gabriel Domergue - SOLD
c. 1940
Oil on paper laid on board
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Fabienne
by Jean Gabriel Domergue - SOLD
1913
Oil on panel
SOLD
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Odalisque
by Jean Gabriel Domergue - SOLD