Janusz De Rola (1910-1991) Oil On Canvas - The Elegant Series - The Woman In Red"

Protrait of an elegant "Woman in Red" Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, framed. Janusz de Rola is a figurative painter of Polish origin born in 1910 and died in 1991, whom the gallery owner Katia Granoff (1896-1989) described as the "Chopin of painting". From a family of the Polish Princely Nobility. Training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Austria). He will be a diplomat until the Second World War. Janusz from ROLA received the title of artist of the year 1986 awarded by the German cultural magazine "Madame". Then in 1987 the journal Art Sud devoted an article to him in its first issue. Salvatore Lombardo, founder of the magazine, will pay homage to him in a Petit Recueil published in 1991. Official portraitist of the Saudi royal family, he also produced the portraits of Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot.