Theatre Scene Project Around 1900, By Gustave Adolphe Mossa

Interesting small watercolor study on cardboard, by Gustave Adolphe Mossa, for a play, in an antique style. Gustave Adolphe Mossa (1883-1971) is a symbolist artist, who made most of his pictorial career before the First World War. Seriously injured during it, certainly deeply traumatized, he turned to an activity of carnival painter in Nice his hometown, then took over from his father as director of the museum. His work, however extraordinary, was no longer shown and was not reopened until after his death. An admirer of German artists at the beginning of the century, he rejected this source of inspiration with the war. The fact that the watercolor is signed in Gothic, allows us to say that it belongs to the first period of activity. It is framed in a 19th century cane frame. Dimensions of the drawing on sight: 16 cm x 11 cm