Marcel LENOIR (1872-1931) Etude à lEncre pour Jules Oury tendance Titrée "Gai sommeil"

Indian ink study signed lower right

Titled lower left "gai sommeil"

Dimensions (frame): 39 X 31 cm

Dimensions (work): 30 X 22 cm

Marcel-Lenoir, Jules pseudonym of Oury, Jules French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born May 12, 1872, in Montauban; died September 7, 1931, in Montricoux. Painter, fresco painter, engraver, illustrator, poster artist. Religious subjects, characters, portraits, urban landscapes.

Originally from Montauban, Jules Oury, who would later adopt the pseudonym Marcel-Lenoir, moved to Paris in 1889, at the age of seventeen. Strongly encouraged by his goldsmith father to develop his artistic talents, he undertook a brief training at the École des Arts Décoratifs and then at the École des Beaux-Arts. He quickly turned away from goldsmithing to concentrate on painting. The art of the French and Italian primitives that he discovered at the Louvre would have a profound effect on him. A great lover of Pierre Puvis de Chavanne from whom he received encouragement, he was naturally drawn to the symbolist nebula and more particularly to the esoteric universe of the Rose+Croix.

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