The Women Of The Casbah / Julien Le Bordays

Of great talent, Fauve, symbolist and hermetic, Julien Le Bordays exhibited from 1914 until the 1940s. Like Richard Maguet, he was one of those painters of the school of Algiers, figurative and disconcerting, whose exquisite painting has fallen into oblivion. Unsigned, attributed with certainty, circa 1920, this work is typical of the iconoclastic pictorial vocabulary, mixing in the foreground a classic 19th century representation of the woman of Algiers and in the background the women of the casbah as felt and experienced by the modern painters of the school of Algiers. Original canvas and original frame, without restorations. Studies of the upper part have been found in the artist's production.