Charles-François-Prosper Guérin
An attractive portrait of a woman in a hat from 1911, one of the painter’s favorite subjects. A work of light and luminous color.
Oil on canvas
Bears date 1911 on back
Dimensions: 72.5 x 54 cm
With frame: 96 x 77 cm
Price: 8500 euro
A luminous portrait of a woman by Charles Guérin, a favorite subject.
Charles Guérin presents us with a portrait of an elegant woman in a hat, glove and parasol, preparing to go out. The woman is young and seductive. Her pretty berry hat and mahogany-brown hair highlight her deep-blue eyes. Her lips, colored red and catching the light, catch the eye.
Charles Guérin, a talented colorist.
Charles Guérin is a talented colorist. A characteristic that can be seen throughout his work.
In our painting, the light and luminous colors, in a gradation of white and beige, are enlivened by the red of the elegant woman’s lips and the mahogany brown of her hair and the knob of her parasol. The brightly colored fruit on the hat brings an overall joy.
Biography
The son of a Sens banker, Charles-François-Prosper Guérin was a post-Impressionist painter. He studied with Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.
He then became friends with Georges d’Espagnat.
He exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1896. He then became a member of the Société nationale des Beaux- Arts, where he exhibited regularly. He exhibited ten paintings at the 1904 Autumn Salon. In 1901 he became a member of the Independent Artists Committee.
In 1913, he was one of the French painters exhibited in New York at the “Armory Show” and in 1914, he participated in the exhibition of contemporary French art in Japan.
He was also a color lithographer and produced compositions in the taste of the 18th century. He has illustrated several bibliophile works, including Paul Verlaine’s “Fêtes galantes”.
He was named Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1932.
Professor of painting for nearly twenty years at the Academy of the Grande Chaumière, he ended his career as head of the painting workshop of the Grande Masse des Beaux-Arts from 1937 to 1939 at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Bibliography
Museums
• In Paris :
. Musée d’Orsay : Nu de jeune femme, vers 1906.
. Musée d’art moderne de la ville de paris
. Center Pompidou: Portrait of Charles-Louis Philippe,
– In the provinces:
. Beauvais, musée de l’Oise : Deux élégantes,.
. Roubaix, La Piscine : La Liseuse.
. Sens, musée municipal : Narcisse, 1896.
. Poitier, La dame aux bracelets
. Pau, nu au chandelier
. Toulon, sitting naked woman.
– Internationally:
. Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum: Nude Woman with Hat, 1907; Shchukin Collection
Source
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Guérin_(peintre)
