Louis Touchagues "peau d'Ane, The Palace" Oil On Cardboard 54x65

Louis TOUCHAGUES (1893-1974)
Oil on cardboard 54x65 cm "Peau d'Ane, le Palais" circa 1930
Signed lower left, titled on the back
Trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon, Louis Touchagues first worked as a decorator and fabric designer.
Noticed by Paul Poiret who encouraged him in the path of painting, he then participated in numerous Salons and exhibited at Katia Granoff.
Louis Touchagues became the portraitist of Tout-Paris in the 1930s.
His talent as a draftsman is also revealed in the illustration of many texts: Verlaine, Colette, Marcel Aymé, Maurois ...
In this scene from the tale Peau d'Ane, we find the elegance of the line, the imagination and the fantasy of the Decorator, which made his success. Bibliography: Benezit, Schurr, ...
Modern wooden frame