""les Bienfaits De La Nature Offerts Au Plus Grand Nombre" Art Deco Painting F.majorel 1930"
"Les bienfaits de la nature offerts au plus grand nombre"“Nature's Goodness offered to more people”
An Impressive and Decorative Art Deco oil on canvas painting
Original frame
Signed on the lower part right F.Majorel
Circa 1930
Fernand Majorel is a painter and sculptor from Lyon. He studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris (a pupil of Bonardel and Morizet).
His studio is located at 2, rue du Jardin-des-Plantes in Lyon (30s-40s).
He is known for his female nudes.
In the inter-war period of the 1930s, he also painted orientalist scenes and landscapes (Morocco).The term Art Deco didn't come into use until the 1960s when it was adopted as a term to describe the style of decorative arts which was celebrated at the 1925 Paris Exhibition "L'Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes".
Bibliography : « La peinture lyonnaise au XIXème siècle », Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier et Etienne Grafe. Les éditions de l'Amateur 1995, p. 304.
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