“Pin-Up” Jean Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) oil on canvas,14+1/2 x 18+1/2 in, (W x H) early 1950's contained in an elegant French Empire style frame. Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a French painter specializing in portraits of Parisian women. He was born in Bordeaux and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. At the young age of seventeen, in 1906, he exhibited a landscape at the Salon Des Artistes Francais. Beginning in the 1920s he concentrated on becoming the painter of the "Parisian lady”, with many of them being nudes. He later claimed to be the inventor of the “pin-up”.  Indeed, as an artist Domergue had invented a new type of woman: thin, airy, elegant, with a swanlike neck and wide seductive eyes which gaze upon the world with longing. He was appointed a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur and like any respectable Parisian Boulevedier died seated at a Paris sidewalk cafe. Dealer's note: This painting bears the signature of J.G. Domergue's brother who was the executor of his estate and so notated each work in his studio which was not already signed by the artist.