Louis BERTHOMMÉ-SAINT-ANDRÉ

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Louis BERTHOMMÉ-SAINT-ANDRÉ
VERY NICE TABLE OF A PORTRAIT OF Louis BERTHOMMÉ-SAINT-ANDRÉ (1905-1977) Oil on canvas signed lower left and titled "Regard pensif" on the back. 73 x 60 cm Louis Berthomme Saint-André joined Georges Naud, responsible for the historical monuments of the Lower Charente, as a student architect. In 1921, he was a pupil of Fernand Cormon and Jean-Paul Laurens at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Silver medal at the Salon des artistes français where he exhibited from 1924 to 1929, he also obtained a grant from the Algerian government. He won the Abd-el-Tif Prize in 1925 and was then the youngest resident of the villa in Algiers. A friend of Jean Launois, in addition to his well-known portraits, he painted Algiers and the Kasbah. His studies of women recall those of Eugène Delacroix, but if his luminous inspiration is due to the Algerian sun, his touch is more Cezannian than purely orientalist. He left Algeria in 1928 and returned in 1931. He drew erotic illustrations for works by Paul Verlaine, Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Alfred de Musset, Jean-Louis Miège... He travelled to sub-Saharan Africa in 1970 and to Senegal as an artistic cooperant. Critical reception: "Although he painted many landscapes, particularly in the Charente, Brittany and Auvergne, he is best known as a painter of characters, especially women... The oil paintings and drawings show women in an interior, either alone or in a group; dressed, but most often dressing or undressing. There are also nudes. But, through the clothes, Berthomme Saint-André likes to give his models a fin de siècle look. He thus introduces a certain nostalgia into images that have no other purpose than to please. The vivacity of the colours and the sketchy aspect give his paintings a modernist character. But we find the past in the proportions, the anatomy, the linear and atmospheric perspective which are classical. His drawings show a great concern to give the illusion of the material of the fabrics. " - Revue Connaissance des arts.
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