Georges Pierre Guinegault (1893-1982) Female Nude Lying Down From Behind

Oil on canvas circa 1950.

The frame measures 40 cm x 80 cm.

Signed lower right. Slight tear of 1.5 cm at the top right. Georges Guinegault, born in Rennes on March 27, 1893 and died in Dinard on July 26, 1983 Biography In June 1913, a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, he won a prize in the general decorative composition competition "Bacon de Fenêtre", organized by the State Secretariat for Fine Arts at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. Paris. This painter and engraver was later a student of Eugène Delâtre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. To begin his career, Guinegault lived in Montparnasse where he rented a villa at 7 rue Jules Chaplain. In 1933, his studio was located on rue Dieulafoy in Paris. He painted landscapes of Paris, the Manche department, notably The Hague, Brittany (Quiberon, Saint-Malo...), the Côte d'Azur (Saint-Tropez), the Pyrenees, Beauce, the Basque Country (1948) as well as orientalist scenes during his stay in Morocco (Marrakech, Meknes...). His Moroccan works are now particularly sought after. He also painted portraits and especially many nudes. He also practiced engraving, at least from 1925 to 1931. The Galerie Lutetia, in New York and rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Paris, published three of his etchings: Rue à Ciboure, Ancien cloître à Ciboure and A la frontière espagnole.