Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this piece to the 1930s.
A superb large signed oil on canvas by the French painter of nudes, Paul Sieffert.
A beautiful example of the painter’s work. This particular posture, being his most valued and sought-after paintings, A recent very similar painting from the same series and posture sold in June 2024 Germany for 15,000 euros hammer + 30% BP. (last Image)
The painting is a delicate back view of a beautiful woman, lying on a light fur rug, in front of a faun wall. The woman draws her legs and back forward and rests her head on her arm. Sieffert was a figure and nude painter who learned painting in the studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). His paintings are characterised by their delicate colour palette, precise depiction of anatomy, and the uniformity of his subjects. He became a prolific nude painter in his later years. Numbered his works. The similar painting that sold in 2024 was pastel under glass number 180. (Last Image) Ours is oil on canvas, number 736.
Portrait and nude painter, student of Gérôme. He received the Rome Prize in 1902. Paintings by him are in several important collections and public museums. (14014815) (19)
Title: ‘’Nude resting on a fur rug”
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on original canvas
Size: c. 20 x 26 inches unframed
Condition: Very good condition – ready to hang
Paul Sieffert was a pupil of Jean Léon Gérôme, Gabriel Guay and Albert Maignan. In 1902 he won the first Grand Prix de Rome. In 1931 he was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur and in 1937 he received the Diplôme d’honneur for the Exposition Internationale. He exhibited in Paris, mainly at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was a member from 1894. He was also a member of the committee and the jury. Although he created some decorative works, cartoons for stained glass, illustrations for books, and even, in his youth, several very Realist subjects ( Dockers, Drunken Slave) the latter part of his career was devoted to an inexhaustible output of nudes.
Some Auction Records
Chaumont, 29 Nov 1997: Nude Seen from Behind on a Blue Veil (oil on canvas, 13 × 22 ins/33 × 55 cms
Chaumont, 29 Nov 1997: Nude Seen from Behind on a Blue Veil (oil on canvas, 13 × 22 ins/33 × 55 cm) FRF 23,000
New York, 3 May 2000: Reclining Female Nude (1898, oil on canvas, 35 × 56 ins/89 × 143 cm) USD 24,000
London, 22 Sept 2000: Nude with Bearskin (oil on canvas, 26 × 37 ins/65 × 95 cm) GBP 10,000
London, 29 March 2001: Nude from behind with Fur (oil on canvas, 20 × 26 ins/51 × 65 cm) GBP 40,000.
London, 28 Nov 2001: Young Girl Doing Her Hair (oil on canvas, 31 × 23 ins/79 × 58 cm) GBP 10,500
Paris, 27 June 2002: Nude from behind with Fur (oil on panel, 6 × 9 ins/15 × 24 cm) EUR 8,000
London, 21 Nov 2002: Young Tennis Player (1924, oil on canvas, 36 × 29 ins/92 × 73 cm) GBP 5,200
Stockholm, 3 Dec 2003: Reclining Female Nude (oil on panel, 6 × 10 ins/16 × 26 cm) SEK 52,000
London, 21 Jan 2004: Reclining Nude (oil on canvas, 29 × 39 ins/74 × 100 cm) GBP 6,000
London, 14 July 2004: Reclining Nude (oil on canvas, 21 × 32 ins/54 × 81 cm) GBP 6,000
Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this piece to the 1930s.
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PAUL SIEFFERT Oil painting
