Null Lucien JONAS (1880-1947)
"The three readers".
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower r…
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Lucien JONAS (1880-1947) "The three readers". Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated 1909 157 x 172 cm (wear, restoration and large white trace at lower left at table leg, part of canvas folded over at back) The painter Lucien Jonas had a highly successful official career. Son of an industrialist from the Nord region, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes, then in Paris, before winning the Second Prix de Rome in 1905. In 1915, he became a military painter, attached to the Musée de l'Armée, then a naval painter. He produced large-scale wall decorations in Paris, and also provided decorations for the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1937. Our painting is part of his early naturalist repertoire, in which social description is combined with his talent as a portraitist. "Les Trois Lecteurs" is influenced by the collective portraits painted by Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in the second half of the 19th century. Van Rysselberghe's "A Reading" comes to mind. The setting of the books and library, and the concentrated, studious expressions, create a sense of intellectual spirituality. Expert: F.et P.Chanoit + 33 (0) 1 47 70 22 33 [email protected]

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Lucien JONAS (1880-1947) "The three readers". Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated 1909 157 x 172 cm (wear, restoration and large white trace at lower left at table leg, part of canvas folded over at back) The painter Lucien Jonas had a highly successful official career. Son of an industrialist from the Nord region, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes, then in Paris, before winning the Second Prix de Rome in 1905. In 1915, he became a military painter, attached to the Musée de l'Armée, then a naval painter. He produced large-scale wall decorations in Paris, and also provided decorations for the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1937. Our painting is part of his early naturalist repertoire, in which social description is combined with his talent as a portraitist. "Les Trois Lecteurs" is influenced by the collective portraits painted by Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in the second half of the 19th century. Van Rysselberghe's "A Reading" comes to mind. The setting of the books and library, and the concentrated, studious expressions, create a sense of intellectual spirituality. Expert: F.et P.Chanoit + 33 (0) 1 47 70 22 33 [email protected]

Estimate 600 - 800 EUR

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