Marcel Cosson (1878-1956) Elegant At Café Chez Maxim's

Art Deco period painting signed COSSON (Marcel COSSON 1878-1956) Oil painting on mahogany panel depicting elegant ladies at the bar presumably Chez Maxim's. Beautiful Montmartre frame in gilded wood. Good general condition, dimensions: 64 cm X 55 cm. See photo n°12 of the auction results at Christie's for Cosson's works presenting similar subjects and formats. Born in Bordeaux in 1878, Jean-Louis Marcel Cosson obtained the "honorable" mention at the Salon des Artistes français in 1901, then the third medal in 1911. Having become a member of the Salon, he exhibited regularly in galleries at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as in most of the important salons of the Parisian scene. He specialized in genre scenes, showing a predilection for the world of entertainment, horse racing, cabarets and city life. "Painter of women", Marcel Cosson, in the tradition of his model Edgar Degas, was fond of ballerinas, whom he preferably sketched backstage, after the performance, or in private. In addition to the liveliness of the poses, what is striking in his technique is the thickness of the brushstrokes, intended to render the sensuality of the textures, in the vein of the Impressionists. His use of colors, willingly intense, flamboyant, rather announces Fauvism. His characters are almost always captured in movement, his painting striving to communicate an atmosphere of slightly feverish pleasure. If Marcel Cosson mainly founded his reputation on oil painting, he also happily practiced pastel, gouache and watercolor.