Jules Oury dit Marcel-Lenoir (Montauban 1872 - Montricoux 1931)

Môme Pervenche, Future Fréhel, 1906 Pastel on paper 30.5 x 23.5 cm on view Signed lower left Marcel-Lenoir We thank Madame Marie Ange Namy for confirming the authenticity of this work. This portrait of a young woman is of Marguerite Boulc'h, a street singer who was retained by La Belle Otéro and introduced to the Parisian music halls. A great singer and actress, under the name of Môme Pervenche, future Fréhel, a great personality, a cabaret singer, she is nicknamed: "The redheaded creeper with dazzling blue eyes". We have been able to identify this personality with such particular and recognizable features, which Marcel-Lenoir may have met as early as 1900, an artist who haunted the cabarets, his older brother immortalized all the singers. Marcel-Lenoir shares Breton origins with the singer. Against a green background, the singer poses in a three-quarter view, turning her face away from the artist. Under her red hair, her blue eyes appear. Her cheeks and closed lips are tinted with carmine. She is wearing a white pearl necklace and a blue dress. In his pastels, Marcel-Lenoir shows a spirit of synthesis, playing with coloured contrasts, here, a blue dress standing out against a green background. Here, the singer of Fanfan d'amour, is similar to period photographs, notably the anonymous one from 1908. A second portrait of the singer, a pastel, is in the Marcel-Lenoir Museum. This personality was among Marcel-Lenoir's prestigious circle, which also included Pablo Picasso and his then companion Fernande Olivier, of whom he also produced two pastels, which are kept in the Marcel-Lenoir Museum. Portrait exhibited at the Marcel-Lenoir Museum during the exhibition on the portrait and reproduced in the catalogue in 2011. Broken glass