DOMERGUE Jean-Gabriel (1889-1962) 

"Chez Maxim's" 

Oil on panel, 
Signed lower right, 
Titled and numbered on the back by the artist: "Maxim's 160", 
French Customs stamp and various annotations, 

Beautiful work by the famous French painter from Bordeaux, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, which depicts an elegant Parisian woman dressed in long gloves, a bibi and a pink scarf around her neck. This young woman is enjoying a glass of champagne seated at a table in the famous Parisian restaurant Maxim's.
The work is treated with finesse and delicacy by the artist in order to best show the characteristics and expressiveness of his model. 

Jean Gabriel Domergue, second cousin of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, considers himself the inventor of the pin-up. He also depicts couples at social events and naked women in a stereotypical manner in his compositions. His favorite subject remains women.

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

Today his works are present in many public and private collections. 

Dimensions: 33 x 24 cm without frame and 52 x 43 cm with its Montparnasse frame in carved wood.

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