Les Migrants
Gouache on paper, signed and dated 1933 lower left
94.50 x 69 cm
Yves Brayer was born in 1907 in Versailles. A painter, engraver, illustrator and French theater decorator, he is one of the masters of the School of Paris. Brayer was trained at the academies of Montparnasse and Grande Chaumière, then at the École des beaux-arts in Paris where he was appointed professor in 1926. Mastering a wide variety of techniques, he is the author of an abundant production of landscapes but also large compositions, figures and still lifes. In 1957, he was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts. The painter died in 1990 in Paris.