321 - Georges BARRIÈRE (1881–1944).

Georges BARRIÈRE (1881–1944). The Great Gate of Komi Wai-Ise, Pagoda of Torments, Yunnanfou—1936. Oil on panel, signed and dated lower left, titled and adorned with pencil sketches on the reverse. H_26.5 cm W_34 cm In a varnished wooden frame. Provenance: French private collection, passed down through the family of an expatriate who lived in Vietnam from the 1930s to the 1950s. Note: A student of Léon Bonnat and Jules Adler at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Georges Barrière began exhibiting as early as 1903 at the Salons d’Automne, the Salons des Indépendants, and the Salons des Artistes Français. Winner of the Prix de l’Indochine in 1934 for *Portrait of a Young Scholar*, he arrived in Saigon in October of that same year and spent the last ten years of his life in Indochina. There, he traveled throughout Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and exhibited regularly in Saigon and Hanoi.