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Jean LAUNOIS (Les-Sables-d’Olonne 1898 – Algiers 1942)
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Jean LAUNOIS (Les-Sables-d’Olonne 1898 – Algiers 1942)
Women…
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
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Description
Jean LAUNOIS (Les-Sables-d’Olonne 1898 – Algiers 1942)
Women on the Patio
Gouache and watercolour over pen line
65 x 49 cm (image size)
Signed lower right: Jean Launois
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Gouache and watercolour over pen and ink line, signed lower right (25⅝ × 19¼ in.)
Winner of the Abd-el-Tif Prize in 1920, he spent two years in Algiers, where he met Étienne Dinet, then Albert Marquet — a decisive encounter that steered his work towards greater freedom. Trained in pastel and charcoal, he led a bohemian life in Montparnasse (Carco, Asselin, Dorgelès) before winning the Prix de l’Indochine in 1923 and travelling throughout Asia. It was, however, Algiers that brought him to prominence: there he painted tirelessly the Casbah, the women and the common people, in a style of expressive candour hailed by the critics, which was crowned in 1931 with the Cottet Prize from the Society of Orientalist Painters.
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