Large Vintage Mid Century Post Impressionist Portrait of a Young Woman by Louis Berthomme Saint-André

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Large scale post impressionist portrait of a young woman by well listed artist Louis Berthomme Saint-André. Oil on canvas, presented … more Large scale post impressionist portrait of a young woman by well listed artist Louis Berthomme Saint-André. Oil on canvas, presented in original dark bronze-giltwood frame with newly replaced soft white linen liner.

Painting: 36.25"x 23.5"
Frame: 45.25"x 33"

Louis Berthomme Saint-André (1905-1977) joined Georges Naud and was responsible for the historical monuments of the Lower Charente, as a student architect. In 1921, he was a pupil of Fernand Cormon and Jean-Paul Laurens at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Louis won the Silver medal at the Salon des artistes français where he exhibited from 1924 to 1929. He also obtained a grant from the Algerian government. He won the Abd-el-Tif Prize in 1925 and was then the youngest resident of the villa in Algiers. A friend of Jean Launois, in addition to his well-known portraits, he painted Algiers and the Kasbah. His studies of women recall those of Eugène Delacroix, but if his luminous inspiration is due to the Algerian sun, his touch is more Cezannian than purely orientalist. He left Algeria in 1928 and returned in 1931. He drew erotic illustrations for works by Paul Verlaine, Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Alfred de Musset, Jean-Louis Miège. He traveled to sub-Saharan Africa in 1970 and to Senegal as an artistic cooperant. less