Eller (lucien Roudier Dit) (1894 - 1940) Painter From The Roaring Twenties-bar Scene From The 1920s.

Watercolor on paper signed lower left
Dimensions: 48 x 63 cm, with frame 64 x 80 cm

Paris makes the painter the witness of his twirling nights of the Roaring Twenties. He paints the small world of the city seated in cafes, whose vain conversations evaporate in the clouds of cigarettes and the haze of their glass of alcohol. Perhaps they taste the Clacquesin, the black aperitif of the Roaring Twenties. The women and the man, elegantly dressed, pass the time. Note the attention to colors and the lively gesture of the designer who hatches certain surfaces to indicate the shadow and condenses, in a few strokes, the simplicity of the faces.

Painter, illustrator and decorator, Lucien Eller was the painter of nightlife, bars, and jazz clubs. He depicts the atmosphere of the night in an expressive and graphic style, between illustration and painting, in the tradition of painters Van Dongen and Rouault. Laureate of the Société des Beaux-arts de Marseille, he moved to Paris after the First World War. In the capital, he exhibited at the Devambez gallery and at the Salons des Indépendants and the Salon des Humoristes. Died prematurely, his work remains in the shadows for twenty years. In 1956, a sale was organized in Nice; it brings together more than 70 of his works and brings him back to light with an audience of knowledgeable dealers and collectors.

Bibliography:. Emmanuel Bénézit, “Dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and engravers”, t. 4, Gründ Bookstore, 1976, p. 144
.Martin Wolpert & Jeffrey Winter “Modern Figurative paintings, the Paris connection” A Schiffer Book