Alfred Lombard (1884-1973), Portrait Of A Woman, Oil On Canvas Signed On The Left

Alfred Lombard is a Provençal painter born in Marseille in 1884. After exhibiting his works at the Salon d'Automne in 1907 and at the Paris Salon of 1910, he organized with P. Girieud the Salon de Mai de Marseille in 1912 and 1913 in their common workshop at no. 12 quai de Rive-Neuve on the Old Port. He notably worked with the architect P. Patout from 1925 on the layout and design of the interior decorations of the large liners of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique and in particular the Ile de France and Atlantique liners. This collaboration reached its peak in 1935 with the Normandie liner, an undisputed and unequaled masterpiece of French Art Deco from the 1930s. He presented his work in the most prestigious galleries in the capital and two personal exhibitions were dedicated to him: at Rosenberg in 1914 and at Druet in 1925. However, his professional demands quickly led him to move away from the commercial circuits of the art world, which he disapproved. It was on the fringes of any official career, his personal resources sheltering him from financial need, that he continued his theoretical and practical research, always close to his friend Pierre Girieud. This oil on paper mounted on canvas is a preparatory work for the large painting "Portrait of a Woman at a Dresser".