Portrait Of A Malagasy Man Paul Léon Bléger Africanist Traveler Painter Madagascar

Superb gouache of a man, of the Malagasy tribe of Mahafaly.

The man is represented with an ethnic headdress, one can also distinguish around his neck a necklace.
Very rare, this ethnographic, realistic work is signed by the Geneva painter Paul Léon Bléger.

Paul Léon Bléger is a painter born in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) in 1889 and died in Switzerland in Geneva in 1981. Pupil of Baschet and Déchenaud; member of the French Artists he exhibited at the Salon from 1922 to 1936 and obtained the Théodore Balli prize in 1927, a silver medal in 1928 and the Auguste Zwiller prize in 1932.

Very slight traces of mildness are to be reported, this gouache on paper is sold without frame.

Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm

The photos are taken in natural light.
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