‘Sleep’ Huge French Abstract Portrait, Original Oil Painting Signed

Sleep, Huge French Abstract Portrait, Original Oil Painting Signed By French artist Elisabeth Dujarric, b.1930-2005 Dated ‘1962’ verso Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 43.5 x 18 inches Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière is a French Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1930, died 2005. Her use of muted colours to convey the physical body is quite wonderful. Elisabeth Dujarric de La Rivière, painter, died Friday, November 18, 2005. She was 76 years old. Born in Jouy-en-Josas in 1929, settled in the city of artists La Ruche (Paris- 15e ) in the 1950s, she was very close with Paul Rebeyrolle and his group. In 1957 she received the Young Painting Salon Award. She first signed large still lifes and then moved on to a more intimate work, as evidenced by an exhibition in 1968 at the Claude Lévin Gallery, as well as the engravings she made to illustrate many works. Elisabeth Dujarric de La Rivière had allowed the rescue of the Hive, creating the saving association. Condition report: The painting and canvas are both in a very pleasing condition; minor scuffs to the surface.