Paul JOUVE (1878-1973) - Lot 15

Paul JOUVE (1878-1973) Two black panthers, 1930 Mixed media on paper mounted on cardboard Signed in red lower right, located Berlin and dated (19)30. 72 x 106 cm Historical background: - Paul Jouve spent a few days in Berlin in 1930 to sketch all the animals in the zoo, whose felines were, in his opinion, more beautiful than those in the Hamburg zoo. Exhibition: - Our work was most probably painted on the spot, and inspired the one presented at the "Group of Four" Exhibition at the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris from December 10, 1930 to January 6, 1931. Bibliography: - Félix Marcilhac, Jouve sculpteur animalier, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2001, p. 193 for an in situ view at the Galeries Georges Petit in 1930, showing a model larger in size but identical in composition, and p. 160 for two other black panthers at play.