Roger BRÉVAL (19th-20th century) - Lot 101

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Roger BRÉVAL (19th-20th century) - Lot 101
Roger BRÉVAL (19th-20th century) Carrier in profile and felucca Gouache signed lower right and dated [19]37. Height 69 - Width 68 cm A decorative painter born in Beauvais, Roger Bréval worked between 1912 and 1913 on the decoration of the dome of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées under the direction of Maurice Denis. After several successive stays in Egypt, he settled there permanently in 1920 before being appointed professor of painting at the Cairo School of Fine Arts, a position he held until his final departure in 1937. In 1924, he founded with Mahmoud Moukhtar the group La Chimère which marked the intellectual and artistic life of Cairo for about fifteen years and whose aim was to promote painting and sculpture inspired by Egyptian subjects, by artists established in Egypt.
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