Y. Giraud-Hanriot back nude lady oil on canvas

Yvonne Giraud-Hanriot (1898-1960)

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right corner.
74cm 60cm (without frame)
Excellent condition.

Yvonne Giraud-Hanriot was important artist in the 1930's.
She exhibited in many Salons (see below )and galleries including Edgar Brandt Gallery beside Paul Jouve, André Margat and famous sculptor Edouard-Marcel Sandoz.
If her work was often to paint animals, studying precisely anatomy and musculature, she was also interested in portraits and landscape (Paris City hall purchased in 1937 a lanscape).
In our back nude lady, we meet her incredible talent in painting bodies and muscles. The movement is also in a mid distance between classicism and modernity.

If rather often drawing by Giraud-Hanriot (mainly studies) appear on the market her oil paintings are extremely rare.


1931 Galerie Edgar Brandt with Jouve, Margat, Sandoz. (ref : Comedia. Octobre 1931)

1932 Galerie Marignan exposition de peintres coloniaux Aout 1932. 2 oeuvres exposées : "2 toiles saisissantes de vie et d'expression, dans deux genres différents, une est la reproduction pleine de force et de réalisme d'une superbe tigresse, et l'autre est le protrait d'un noir de la Haute Volta, visage musclé presque sculpté". (Source : "Les Annales Coloniales 11 aout 1932, The Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, 8 aout 1932 )

1934 Salon des artistes décorateur (ref : Catalogue du salon)

1936 Salon des Tuileries Dessins de Chevaux (Source : L'aube, 10 juin 1936)

1936 Galerie Belles Pages. Paris. Février 1936. Exposition (Source : Revue "la semaine à Paris". 1936)

1937 Exposition internationale des arts et techniques (Source: Catalogue du salon)

1937 Acquisition par la Mairie de Paris d'une oeuvre "Paysage de Brume" (ref : Deliberation du conseil municipal 19 mars 1937)

1938 Salon des Tuileries (ref : Catalogue du salon)
REFERENCE: gh1604