A pastel, Reclining Nude by Jean Albert Grand CARTERET 1928
A pastel, Reclining Nude by Jean Albert Grand CARTERET 1928
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Jean-Albert Grand Carteret 1903–1943
He is the grandson of journalist and art and fashion historian John Grand-Carteret.
cle. Coming from a cultured background, he trained in drawing and painting from an early age, developing a personal pictorial language nourished by both the French figurative tradition and a modern sensibility.
A student of Lucien Simon, he regularly exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and the Salon des Indépendants.
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| Dimensions | 71.5 × 56 cm |
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Here, Grand-Carteret subtly models the volumes, using warm flesh tones, enhanced by light shadows that hug the forms without ever hardening them.
Pastel allows for a velvety rendering of the skin, almost tactile, where light glides over the hips, back, and legs with great delicacy.
The environment is deliberately sober but structuring: cushions, sheets, and furniture are suggested by muted flat colors—browns, ochres, bluish grays—which contrast with the luminosity of the body.
This work asserts its modernity through its refined design and restrained colors.
