Posted 11 days ago
vintagelamp
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ARTIST: Georges Eveillard (1879-1965) French
TITLE: "Portrait Of A Gentleman"
SIGNED: lower left and dated 1913
MEDIUM: oil on panel
SIZE: 37cm x 32cm framed
From the internet:
Eveillard was born in Nantes and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes in Paris in the early 20th Century. Eveillard was director of the Ecole Des Beaux Arts and a conservator at the museum in the town of St-Nazaire. He won numerous gold medals for his paintings including The Ecole Des Beaux Arts Rouen and at Nantes and also the The Ecole Batignolles De Paris and at the art school in Montparnasse Paris. He was also a commended war artist between 1914-1918.
Georges Eveillard
Birth
1879
Nantes, Departement de la Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
Death
1965 (aged 85–86)
Burial
Cimetière Miséricorde
Nantes, Departement de la Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
Nice portrait!
Lovely smiling eyes and superb kind of "à l'impériale" moustache with barb!
kyra,
Glad that you love this! I Loved the comment! He is imperial looking over all.
This is an unexpected oil on panel. It is interesting that Eveillard was creating and successfully showing such work in a 1913 Paris embracing Picasso & Braque ... and revelling in the shock of colours and shapes that marked the height of Analytic Cubism.
There is a humanity in the brutal honesty of this portrait, a humanity that asks to be known; a humanity that analytic cubism never achieved (nor attempted). Yet, I must say that this totally honest and self-revealimg portrait makes me so sad that I want to cry.
Thank you for the post.
Daisy1000,
Thank you! The last few sentences sum up my emotional response to this painting perfectly. I was drawn to this image for that reason.