Painting On Canvas-gold Leaves-signed-louis Féraud-femmes Charleston-1988

LOUIS FÉRAUD 1920 Gagnières - 1999 Paris Great Parisian fashion designer, painter, writer FEMMES CHARLESTON Painting on canvas with gold leaf Signed, dated lower right (Slight restoration with gold leaf) 1988 Frame also decorated with gold leaf gold 115 cm x 72 cm 130 cm x 85 cm PERFECT CONDITION Son of Joseph Henri Féraud (1878-1939), baker and Berthe Louise Domergue (1888-1950). Self-taught, he is successively an electrician, a swimming instructor and manager of a sports store in Cannes. Arrested by the Gestapo, he escaped and decided to change careers after being hosted in Paris by the columnist Yvan Audouard, another Arlesian (by adoption). In 1947, he created his fashion boutique in Cannes and Paris at 88 Faubourg Saint-Honoré. In 1958, he launched his fashion house. His fame came in the 1960s when he dressed the plastic of Brigitte Bardot. With Vadim, Féraud helps create the modern woman. Her fashion is cheerful, naive and sunny. It was at this time that he launched into haute couture. He is therefore carried by a whirlwind of happiness and emancipation. In 1986, it was the consecration: he received the Golden Dice. In his workshops, he trained Jean-Louis Scherrer, Margit Brandt and Per Spook. Féraud also acquired a reputation as a painter of nudes and landscapes and also discovered the soul of a novelist. He published L'Été des pengouins, published by Julliard, and L'Hiver des fous by Presses de la Cité. The celebrities of the moment, Romain Gary and Roman Polanski, flock to his house.