Jean Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962) - Lot 500

Lot n° 500
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1000 - 1500 EUR
Result : NC
Jean Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962) - Lot 500
Jean Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962) Worry Oil on cardboard Signed lower right, titled on back 22.2 cm x 17.5 cm For Jean-Gabriel Domergue, the female nude is never innocent: it is stylized, constructed, almost worldly. Heir to an academic tradition that he hijacks, Domergue elongates silhouettes, refines faces, accentuates lines to create an idealized woman, recognizable among all. His nudes are not about intimacy, but an aesthetic of seduction. The body is smooth, elegant, often theatrically arranged, bathed in a soft light that erases all roughness. More than a real model, it's a type he paints: the Parisian woman, free, sophisticated, already close to the advertising image. The nude thus becomes an extension of his worldly work. He sought neither anatomical truth nor inner turmoil, but a perfect, decorative, immediately legible form - a beauty designed to be seen.
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