Henri Laigneau (1863 - 1947) - Self-portrait

Henri Laigneau (1863-1947)
*Self-portrait
Oil on cardboard 53 x 29.6 cm
Signed and dated 1914 lower left

Henri Laigneau is a French painter, student of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. He participated in the Salon des Indépendants for several years in a row around 1910. The gaze of our self-portrait is sustained and disconcerting, a feeling accentuated by the tight frame. The use of ocher tones is reminiscent of the brunailles of Eugène Carrière, minus the vaporous side. Several of his works are kept in public collections, in Niort, Rambouillet and Nancy among others.