Young Oriental Girl Signed Eugène Corneau

Young Algerian girl holding pomegranates in a green garden signed Eugène Corneau is a French painter and engraver born June 18, 1894 in Vouzeron and died October 11, 1976 in Pontaubert. Eugène Corneau exhibited for the first time in 1918. He began to engrave in 1920, the year he became a founding member of the Young French Painting group, a member of the Society of French painters-engravers and of the Printmaking Society in 1924. The Abd-el-Tif prize was awarded to him in 1925 and he stayed with Albert Marquet in 1925 in La Goulette. He participated in the decoration of the large room of honor of the Pavilion of Algeria at the Colonial Exhibition of 1931 and 1937. Member of the National Book Committee in 1947, and of that of the Salon d'Automne in 1953, he was appointed professor of engraving at the School of Fine Arts of Algiers until 1962. National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers. National Library of France (cabinet of prints). Book illustration by Georges Marcais. Roland Dorgelès, Between sky and water, logbook of a trip to Indochina, Paris, Crès et Cie, 1930. Jules Renard, Ragotte, Crès et Cie “Le Musée du Livre” collection, 1931. Gabriel Audisio, Le hauthois d'amour, 1932 1929: Paris, Briant gallery. 1935: Paris, Marsan pavilion, Art exhibition of French Africa. 1944: London, Royal Water-Color Society. 1975: Saint-Jean-de-Monts, retrospective exhibition.