Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) 

"Elegant Woman with a Pink Scarf"

Oil on panel,
Signed lower right. 

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Marc Ottavi expert in Paris and Noé WILLER, Jean Gabirel DOmergue artist Expert. 

A beautiful work by the renowned French painter from Bordeaux, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, depicting an elegant Parisian woman with a pink scarf. This young woman wears a scarf tied around her neck and red lipstick. 
The work is rendered with finesse and delicacy by the artist to best showcase the features and expressiveness of his model. 

Jean-Gabriel Domergue, a distant cousin of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, considered himself the inventor of the pin-up. He also depicted couples at social events and nude women in a stereotypical manner in his compositions. 
His favorite subject remained women. 

A student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under painters Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Ferdinand Humbert, and François Flameng, Jean-Gabriel Domergue exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1906. 
In 1936 and 1938, he served on the jury for the Miss France pageant. 
In 1938, he created a composition featuring a nude woman for the campaign for Rigaud's new perfume, Féérie. He also designed the poster for the first Cannes Film Festival. 
In 1950, he was elected a member of the Institut de France and served as curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris from 1955 to 1962, where he organized exhibitions of paintings by Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Goya. 

Today, his works are held in numerous public and private collections. 

Dimensions: 24 x 19 cm unframed and 38.5 x 33 cm with its wooden frame. 

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