Painting by Jean Gabriel Domergue titled La loge de la danseuse

Oil on isorel signed lower left, titled “La loge de la danseuse” on the back.

Born in 1889 in Bordeaux - Died in 1962 in Paris . 

Painter of figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes, flowers, gouache painter, watercolorist, draughtsman, poster artist. 

Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris with an impressive number of professors of the time: Jules Lefebvre , Tony Robert-Fleury , Jules Adler , Fernand Humbert , François Flameng . At first, Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE seemed destined for a career as a landscape painter, but he soon became a painter of nudes and semi-nudes, with a moderate aggressiveness and mischievous coquetry that made his reputation and fortune among a bourgeois clientele more polite than liberated, whose ultimate audacity consisted in sending their wives for portraits; Whoever she was, the portrait, executed with suspicious virtuosity, revealed her to be slender, as if stretched, her bust thrust forward in a bidding motion, her ample bosom inadvertently slightly revealed, her loins arched in a tight-fitting gown, a swan's neck surmounted by a face adorned with make-up, a mischievous nose, a passe-partout Parisienne, somewhere between showy elegance and hidden vulgarity. Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français as early as 1906, at the age of 17, suggesting a precocious skill that has not been denied in his work. Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE won a gold medal in 1920, and in 1927 moved to a sumptuous villa in the hills above Cannes.