VUE DU NIL, EGYPTE

A very fine pastel, framed, signed lower right, with the inscription on the back "View of the Nile, Egypt."Minor soiling in the sky and light scratches.A traveling painter, Paguenaud trained under the academic painter William Bouguereau, whose classes he attended in Bordeaux before continuing his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1922, he was appointed painter to the French Navy, a title which earned him Paul Valéry the description "Admiral of Painters and Painter of Admirals." The artist showed early on a desire to discover the world. "I am going to fulfill one of the dearest dreams of my life," wrote Paguenaud when he embarked for the first time in 1902. "To go there, far away, towards the unknown of the Tropics whose very name awakens in me something that troubles me in a crazy way." From this first trip, which brought him to Martinique at the time of the eruption of Mount Pelée, he brought back a travel journal.From then on, Jean-Louis Paguenaud was constantly at sea. Between 1903 and 1912, on the schooner of his friend Casimir Sobanski, the Polish painter, he sailed the Mediterranean and brought back paintings from Beirut, Alexandria, and Cairo. In 1925, on the cruiser Duguay-Trouin, he explored the African coast and brought back dozens of gouache paintings. In 1927, on the cruiser Lamothe-Piquet, he sailed around South America, stopping in Argentina, Brazil, the Cape Verde Islands, French Guiana, and Uruguay.On view : 345x500With frame : 460x615..

1,200.00 €

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