Fine Oil Painting, Marie Felix Hippolyte C.1905

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Marie Felix Hippolyte Lucas (French, 1854-1925), Orientalist Portrait of a Woman, oil on canvas, signed lower left, canvas.

Dimensions:
10.5"h … Read more Marie Felix Hippolyte Lucas (French, 1854-1925), Orientalist Portrait of a Woman, oil on canvas, signed lower left, canvas.

Dimensions:
10.5"h x 7.5"w, overall.
(with frame): 16.5"h x 13.5"w

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Artist Bio:
Marie Félix Hippolyte-Lucas
French, 1854–1925
Born in 1854 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Marie Felix Hippolyte-Lucas studied under the great French Academic painters Isidore Pils, Karl Lehmann and Évariste Luminais. He became primarily known as a figure and portrait painter, and his oeuvre is filled with bright portraits of aristocratic women. He began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1877 and continued to do so until the year before his death, early numerous award over the years. Also a celebrated muralist, he composed decorative paintings for the casino in Monte Carlo, the conference centre at the Musée Océanographique in Monaco, the Paris Stock Exchange and three ceilings in the Préfecture du Rhône.

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Felix Hippolyte-Lucas
1854-1925 | French

Salome
Signed "F. Hippolyte-Lucas" (lower right)
Oil on canvas

This compelling portrait of Salome was composed by the French painter Marie Felix Hippolyte-Lucas. While the celebrated artist's oeuvre is filled with bright and cheerful portraits of aristocratic women surrounded by florals, here he takes a different approach. Hippolyte-Lucas' Salome is simultaneously exotic and highly modern, rendered in a style that is both theatrical and bold. The monumental work's rich color palette is filled with gem-inspired hues that lend drama to the scene, highlighting the blatant sexuality of this legendary seductress. This work was so monumental for the artist, it was his illustrated submission in the 1912 Paris Salon. See less