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Watercolour portrait of an elegant young woman from the Belle Epoque wearing a hat with a veil, perhaps a spectator on a horse-racing track, created by an artist at the Ecole Colarossi in Paris *, period late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This watercolor is in good condition. It is under glass. It is not signed but from a lot of drawings that we had, the works of an artist when he was at the Académie Colarossi in Paris (some drawings of this lot were signed).
A note: small holes in the corners of the paper.
* Academy Colarossi is an art school in Paris, founded by Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi. Located primarily on the Ile de la Cité, it is transferred in the 1870s at 10 rue de la Grande Chaumiere, in the sixth arrondissement. Both private schools and open workshop, it was an alternative to the very official School of Fine Arts, becoming too conservative in the eyes of many artists. Like the Academie Julian, the Colarossi school accepted female students, and authorized them to paint from nude male models. Known also for his sculpture classes from the model, the institution attracted many foreign students, especially American, Scandinavian and Canadian. The school closed in 1930. At that time, the largest French and foreign artists have passed through the academy of art (Camille Claudel, Lyonel Feininger, Jacques Lipchitz, Modigliani, Mucha, Max Weber, Eileen Gray ...).
