Painting – DENISE CHATELAIN / Two Ballerinas (oil on canvas)

ID: s43021
Category: Paintings
Subcategory: Painting
Location: New store

Country of origin: France
Condition: Used

Description: The painting depicts two ballerinas backstage or during a rehearsal. The technique is oil on canvas, with a visible texture of brushstrokes and layered paint. In the foreground, a seated ballerina in a white tutu is lost in thought. In the background, a ballerina in a purple or lilac tutu stands, seen from behind, adjusting a curtain or backdrop. The work is signed in red-brown paint in the lower left corner with the inscription DENISE CHATELAIN. The composition and cropped viewpoint draw stylistic inspiration from the Impressionist Edgar Degas, who popularized snapshot and unarranged views of ballet backstage. The work was created approximately between the 1950s and 1970s, which is consistent with the gilded wooden frame with a textile linen passe-partout. Denise Chatelain, a French painter born in 1925, specialized in figural painting, often with themes of ballerinas and women. Her oeuvre also includes landscape painting, such as scenes from Provence, and still lifes. The painter's style follows the French Post-Impressionist and Post-Cubist tradition of the 20th century, focusing on vibrant color and the play of light. Works by Denise Chatelain appear in French auctions and antique shops as decorative mid-20th-century medium-format pieces.

Additional info: DENISE CHATELAIN

5 500 Kč / €229