Léonard SARLUIS (1874-1949) - Lot 35

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Léonard SARLUIS (1874-1949) - Lot 35
Léonard SARLUIS (1874-1949) Young woman with red earrings Oil on canvas. Signed lower left, dated 1929 Minor restorations. 80.5 x 62.5 cm Salomon-Léon Sarluis was born in The Hague in 1874. In honor of Leonardo da Vinci, he adopted the pseudonym Leonardo, and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague from 1891 to 1893. From 1894 onwards, Sarluis travelled regularly to Paris, where he discovered the Belgian avant-garde through Armand Point. He became a key figure in Parisian artistic life, described by writer Jean Lorrain as: "the smile of a Vinci, the eyes of Donna Ligeia, the neck of Gabriel Dante Rossetti's Beatrice [sic]. A smile that could be that of pure intelligence if it didn't contribute to more troubled effects. Sarluis, in fact, "like an ancient Eros, incantatorily troubles men and women". Strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and Symbolists, he tackles mythological and biblical subjects in a style that is both troubled and sensual. Léonard Sarluis exhibited at the Salon de la Rose Croix and the Salon des Artistes français. In 1919, the Bernheim Jeune gallery devoted a major exhibition to him, and in 1923 he produced the illustrations for Gaston Pawlowski's Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension. His most important exhibition took place in London in 1928 at the Grafton Galleries, where he mainly exhibited reinterpretations of the Bible. This lot was appraised by Madame Amélie MARCILHAC.
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