Georges De Sonneville Pencil Sketch On Paper, Signed And Dated 1972/190

This sketch presents two figures from the back of a beautiful drawing quality. Stamped and numbered. Bearing the inscription "1972/190". Kept in its display case. Georges Préveraud de Sonneville (1889-1979) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Bordeaux. Upon his arrival in Bordeaux in 1903, he took painting lessons with the symbolist painter Paul Antin. He then attended the Rosa Bonheur Academy. He left for Paris in 1913, where he met the nabbis at the Académie Ranson – Paul Sérusier, Maurice Denis. He alternated moments of life between Paris and Bordeaux, which made him a representative of modernism in Bordeaux, in the wake of painters such as André Lhote, whom he frequented from the 1910s. He co-founded in 1928 with Jean- Loup Simian the Salon of independent artists from Bordeaux. During the 1920s, he displayed great activity as a landscape painter. He is also recognized as a draftsman and caricaturist. A Georges-de-Sonneville museum was erected in homage to the work of the artist and his wife in Gradignan in 2004.