JEAN GABRIEL DOMERGUE (1899-1962) Parisienne élégante

signed ‘Jean Gabriel Domergue’ (lower right) pastel on paper 33 x 28 cm (à vue) Jean-Gabriel Domergue, born in Bordeaux, demonstrated exceptional precocity, exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français at the age of seventeen and receiving a gold medal there in 1920. During the vibrant years of the Roaring Twenties he became renowned for his elegant depictions of the modern Parisienne and the world of fashionable society.