Delphin ENJOLRAS

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Delphin ENJOLRAS
Very nice painting "JEUNE FEMME EN DESHABILLE DEVANT UN MIROIR" by Delphin ENJOLRAS (1857-1945) Oil on canvas signed and dated 1920 in the lower right corner. Very nice gilt stuccoed wood frame decorated with flowery scrolls. 68,5 x 55 cm Born in 1857 in the historic town of Courcouron, in the Ardèche, Delphin Enjolras was a pupil of the watercolourist Gaston Gérard at the École de Dessin de la Ville de Paris, before studying with the painter Gérôme at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and in the workshop of Dagnan-Bouveret. From 1889 to 1909, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, of which he was a member since 1901. At the beginning, he painted mainly landscapes of great quality (Calvet Museum in Avignon and Museum of Le Puy), which he abandoned quite quickly to devote himself to female portraits. The woman is for him an inexhaustible subject of inspiration. He became a specialist in paintings of elegant young women, executed with a very delicate touch in warm tones of pink, orange and blue. They are often depicted busy with their toilet or going about their daily business, taking tea, sewing, reading, playing music, in intimate interiors with diffused light, or on a terrace, by the side of a lake, in the light of lanterns. This lighting, with its muted rendering of light, is characteristic of the artist's work. He painted many pastels and watercolours, mastering perfectly these techniques which allow him to recreate his famous subdued lighting. Painter of lustful women, Enjolras was also the author of very sensual and erotic nudes. These intimate and charming images perfectly reflect the life and taste of the society of the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties.
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