Marie Louise Degabriel

 

(Lyon 1900-1984)

Portrait of Leon Garraud

The Artist's Teacher

 

With a painting of a Christ-like figure on the reverse.

 

Oil on Board

 

 

Signed lower right and dated 1953

Attractively Framed

 

The Lyonnaise painter Marie-Louise Degabriel was a student of the French painter Leon Garraud (1877-1961) who she depicted in this portrait wearing a beret. Garraud, who was also from Lyon, was known for his portraits, particularly of women.

 

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Marie Louise DeGabriel is known for her quiet scenes of interior life, portraits of herself and other women in her surroundings.

 

These quiet works reveal the poetry in daily life of a city apartment and the small but perfect pleasures of a woman living alone in the big city in the mid-20th century - a cup of tea, a bouquet of roses. Her self-portrait with finger raised to her lips hints at the secret that there is so much more to this life than its outwardly bourgeois appearance.

 

 

Dimensions: 39 X 31 cm