Jean Isy De Botton
(French American 1895-1978)
Oil on
canvas 30" X 24"
+ original frame, signed & dated LL "Jean De Botton 1968".
"The career of Jean
De Botton
began among such School of Paris painters as Picasso, Braque, Matisse,
and Duffy. His early designs won him many official commissions for
murals that remain today in many French public buildings. His ability
to make quick, realistic and elegant portraits gained him the unusual
honor to be appointed the official painter of the Coronation of King
George VI of England in 1937. "
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