1930's Portrait of a Lady; Alfred Lop-Montel (1898-1971)

Simply superb portrait of a lady in an imperial red dress with a lilac-white scarf. She looks out calmly, engaging the viewer, her deep, dark eyes and coral red lips drawing the eye in.

From the atelier of Alfred Lop-Montel, though unsigned by the artist.

LOP-MONTEL, Alfred
Born in 1898 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Var, France; Between 1913-1916, Lop-Montel attended the Beaux-Arts of Marseille. In 1920 he settled in Montparnasse with his brother, the eccentric Ferdinand Lop; to differentiate himself, he added "Montel" to his name. Montel died in Paris and his workshop was dispersed by Robin and Fattori, in Avranches.

Lop-Montel was greatly influenced by Cubism, in particular Cézanne and Kisling and his group of artists in Montparnasse. He was a landscape artist, portraitist, author of still lifes and scenes of both Parisian and Mediterranean genre.

Exhibitions: 1919, Sauvage, Paris,

Size:
Frame: Newly framed
CM: 47.5 x 54
Inches: 18 3/4 x 21 1/4
Painting:
CM: 31 x 37
Inches: 12 1/4 x 14 1/2
Provenance: French School.
Condition: Good
Date: 1930's
Medium: Oil on Board

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