Pierre Lelong “Semi-Nude” Limited Edition Lithograph

Design Plus Gallery presents a Limited Edition Lithograph 41/120 by Pierre Lelong. Using subtle color and negative space, the artist reveals simply a semi-nude subject. Beautifully and professionally matted and framed for great effect.

About Artist:
“Born in 1908 in Neuilly, just outside Paris, he lost his mother when he was six and was raised by his grandmother. At 16, he started art classes at the Atelier Julien on the rue du Dragon in Paris, but his studies were interrupted by his military service and then, it seems, by the need to earn a living. He went to work for an insurance company (la Mutualité Agricole), and abandoned all thought of being an artist. Then came the war. He became a liaison officer with an English regiment, the Royal Dragoon Guards. At Dunkirk, he was captured with other officers and interned at a camp near Dresden. He tried and failed to escape, tried again, and succeeded. It was February 1942. After the war, he went to the United States, and returned to Paris the following year. By this point, he was a full-time painter; not just a moonlighting insurance agent. He exhibited frequently, and kept busy doing illustrations for books, magazines, and newspapers. He vigorously defended the art of figurative paintings against the dominant abstract artists of the day. He died in Paris on 29 June 1984.”