Antique nude oil painting post impressionist female nude signed and dated oil painting by French artist Fernand Labat, Nude in the Room.  Atmospheric antique portrait oil painting of a nude woman sitting in a bedroom.  This wonderful old oil painting is in its original frame.  A nude sits in a colombage room 
a folded screen behind her, bed in front, her gown is placed on the chair.  Pastel colours have been applied with busy large and small brushstrokes to give an impactful but quiet painting with hues that would go with any decor.  
MORE ABOUT THIS PAINTING:
Medium: Oil on stretched canvas
Painting size: 20.5ins x 25.5ins or 50cms x 65cms (Approx)
Date: 1926
This painting is in good condition overall, however you should expect imperfections associated with age and a hand made piece.  The frame is the original and has had minor renovations but it is in a good sturdy condition.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Fernand Labat (1889-1959) Fernand was a painter, engraver and illustrator.  He began his passion for painting at the age of 6.  He was the son of a civil engineer and in 1910 became a student of Paul Quinsac at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux . A scholarship allowed him to enter Gabriel Ferrier's school at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
During the The First World War Fernand mobilized as a telephone operator from the Aisne to the Somme then to Alsace.  He was taken prisoner in 1918 then repatriated in 1919 by barge to Rotterdam, then by American ship to Cherbourg . In 1920 he was began his career at rue Asseline in Paris.
He had personal exhibitions at the Galerie Le Portique, Paris, between 1926 and 1929.  This painting would have been on display at the exhibition in 1926.  He also exhibited at the Galerie Georges Bernheim and Galerie Druet, both in Paris.  He also exhibited at the Tuileries from 1923,
Salon d'Automne (Paris) from 1926, he became a member in 1927. .
Salon of the Independents (Paris) 1929.
6th Salon of Independent Bordeaux Artists, Bordeaux , October-November 1933
At the end of his life, Fernand Labat retired to the artists' retirement home in Nogent-sur-Marne, where he died in February 1959. .
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