Elegant By Eugène Leliepvre (1908-1913). For

Beautiful original lithograph representing a young Elegante with bare breasts surrounding a garland of exotic flowers around her neck. This lithograph is one of 150 portraits of "ideal lovers" made for her book "naked elegance, feminine imagination". It is signed in pencil lower right below the bowl. Eugène Leliepvre was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer in 1908 (Pas de Calais) and died on November 17, 2013 at the age of 105. He is best known as a painter of the cavalry and painter of the Elegantes. this last aspect of his work occupied from 1940 to 1960 an important part of his production. Some of these Elegantes are reminiscent of those of Gabriel Domergue. He is also renowned for his hunts and his animal paintings, he was also for 40 years a collaborator with the French hunter and for 23 consecutive years illustrated the Manufrance calendar. He will also be helped by his wife, model maker and figurinist for the Musée de la Marine in Paris. He was appointed in 1951 official painter of the armed forces. Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1998. Shipping costs, contact us.