Léo Victor FONTAN (1884-1965) - Lot 60

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Léo Victor FONTAN (1884-1965) - Lot 60
Léo Victor FONTAN (1884-1965) La Lessive Oil on canvas Signed "Leo Fontan" lower right, countersigned and titled on reverse 32 x 39 cm Framed (A perforation in the upper right corner) NOTICE A French painter, he attended the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours from 1900 to 1903, in the studio of Félix Laurent and Courault, before being admitted to the École des beaux-arts de Paris in April 1903, in the studios of Fernand Cormon in 1913, Léon Bonnat, and Luc-Olivier Merson in 1906 and 1907. He was one of the last ten candidates for the Grand Prix de Rome in 1909. Pierre Lafitte hired him to illustrate the first cover of the Arsène Lupin series of little books. He collaborated with a number of newspapers, including La Vie parisienne, Le Sourire and Fantasio, and designed some posters and sets for the Folies Bergère. He designed furniture and gilding, and took part in the 1925 Decorative Arts Exhibition, as well as in the decoration of Messageries maritimes liners, including the Aramis in 1931, in the company of Mathurin Méheut and Yvonne Jean-Haffen.
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