Pierre Vaillant (1878-1939), "la Toilette", Female Nude, Modern School

Pierre Vaillant (1878-1939), "La toilette", female nude, oil painting on canvas signed lower left, Modern School, circa 1930.
Very good condition. In a modern lacquered wooden frame.

This fascinating painting takes us into the intimacy of a young woman, taken from behind as she, naked, prepares to do her daily toilette in the semi-darkness of a room; next to her, placed on a table with a checkered tablecloth and an apple, the pitcher of water. In the semi-darkness, Vaillant brings out the woman's rosy complexion and the white and blue tones of the ceramic pitcher in a few dense and precise brushstrokes.
This painting certainly belongs to the period spent in his studio in Montparnasse where, thanks to his portraits and nudes, he received numerous critical awards.

Biography:
Pierre Vaillant, born in Paris on January 30, 1878 and died in Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) on May 8, 1939, is a French painter and engraver.
He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studios of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Marcel Baschet. He was also a student of Ferdinand Humbert.
After school, he discovered Brittany where he met the painter Charles Cottet and became his friend and disciple. He often returned to this adopted country and more precisely to Camaret which inspired his paintings, and became known as a painter in the region.
He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes français from 1905 to 1913. A drawing of his "Peasant Woman and Child of Sainte-Anne-la-Palud" is kept in Paris at the Musée national d'art moderne.
In his studio in Montparnasse, Pierre Vaillant produced a series of portraits and nudes appreciated by critics. One of them earned him the Cottet Prize in 1930. That same year, he was appointed professor at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière in Paris. For several years, he devoted himself to the education of young artists, including Amrita Sher-Gil. The State acquired his "Portrait of a Russian Woman".
He also exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Tuileries.
Pierre Vaillant was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1937, and the same year received the highest distinction at the Universal Exhibition for his painting "Child in a Tent".
Pierre Vaillant was a friend of artists such as Albert Besnard, René Prinet, Edmond Aman-Jean, Marcel Louis Sauvaige and Maurice Denis.
He died in Chartres on May 8, 1939.

Measurements
canvas cm 55 x 46
frame cm 72 x 63

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