Georges-h-sabbagh 1887-1951 Garden At La Clarté, Brittany 1920. Crozant, Egypt, Lebanon, Soutine

2nd superb oil/canvas by Georges Hanna Sabbagh representing a garden and houses in La Clarté in Brittany in 1920, signed and dated lower right + located and dated on the back Size of the painting alone 46x55cm This is therefore a second canvas by Sabbagh this time a view of Brittany, in La Clarté in 1920, where the painter lived, he paints here houses and a triangular garden; typical of this period that is said to be the best of the painter (1917-1920) he uses a powerful touch, is inspired by the Nabis, but also by the cubists, also by the expressionists, with this very deconstructed effect with this leaning village, in the manner of a Soutine, great Art, indeed I think so too, the best of Sabbagh! I no longer present Sabbagh, emblematic painter of Northern Brittany (Ploumanac'h, la Clarté, Perros Guirec ...), but also of Egypt and Lebanon and therefore of Creuse where he will come between 1923 and 1925 approximately from where his reference among the painters of the Crozant school. Georges Hanna Sabbagh, born August 18, 1887 in Alexandria and died December 9, 1951 in Paris, is a French painter of Egyptian origin Georges Sabbagh was born in Egypt in a Syrian-Lebanese Christian and wealthy family. In 1897, he took his first drawing lessons in Cairo. In 1906, he continued his studies in Paris where he lived with his older sister. In 1910, he took courses at the Ranson Academy where his teachers were Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier and Félix Vallotton. In 1914, he enlisted in the British army for the duration of the war. On January 3, 1916, he married Agnès Humbert in Paris 16e, daughter of Senator Charles Humbert, with whom he had two sons: Jean Sabbagh, who would become Rear Admiral of the French Navy, and Pierre Sabbagh, the future television man. From December 10 to 31, 19173, first exhibition in Paris at the Chéron gallery. He also painted in Perros-Guirec where he stayed in the summer from 1916 to 1936 and had a house built Djeser Ka Ra in 1933 in Ploumanac'h. In 1925, he also bought a cutter from Carantec there which bears the first names of his two sons Jean-Pierre and with which he raced. He also stayed in the autumn in Crozant in Limousin and painted many landscapes there linking him to the Crozant School. In 1920, he returned to Egypt for the first time since his arrival in Paris, for the burial of his mother. In 1920 and 1921, portraits Les Sabbagh à La Clarté, Les Sabbagh à Paris and a nude Le nu à la fourrure were the focal points of the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. He exhibited in Paris at Bernheim, Druet and Weill from 1920 to 1936, then in Belgium, Egypt and Switzerland. In 1927, he achieved recognition with L'Allégorie du bain and the beginning of a series of official missions to Egypt on behalf of the State Secretariat for Fine Arts. In November 1928 he was at the Allard Gallery and in 1929 he opened a studio in Cairo next to the museum. The same year, he was made a knight of the Legion of Honor, then obtained French nationality in 1930. In 1933, Georges Sabbagh was appointed president of the painting section of the Salon d'Automne. In 1936, he made a trip to Lebanon in the Hammana region. On June 18, 1937, he divorced and lived in Egypt from 1936 to 1945. In 1946, he was general commissioner of a national exhibition bringing together in Algiers the works of the French collections of several oriental museums. In April 1951, he exhibited at the Motte gallery in Geneva and had a final exhibition in Paris where he died suddenly at the age of 64 in his home in the 7th arrondissement Today his paintings are sold all over the world, his rating has been increasing sharply for several years, we even notice peaks at more than €100,000 for large paintings either on Lebanon or Egypt or for genre scenes, including his family in the Clarté studio or in Paris This painting is in good condition, delivered in a modern gilded frame Work guaranteed authentic PS; 2 other paintings by Sabbagh will be offered for sale