Roger BRÉVAL (19th-20th century) - Lot 351

Roger BRÉVAL (19th-20th century) Mosque in Egypt Oil on panel, signed lower right 33 x 33 cm A decorative painter born in Beauvais, Roger Bréval worked between 1912 and 1913 on the decoration of the dome of the Théâtre des Théâtre des Champs-Elysées under the direction of Maurice Denis. After several successive in Egypt, he settled there permanently permanently in 1920, before being appointed professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cairo, a position he held until his final departure in 1937. In 1924, he and Mahmoud Moukhtar founded the group La Chimère, which left its mark on Cairo's intellectual and artistic life in Cairo intellectual and artistic life in Cairo for some fifteen years. to promote painting and sculpture inspired by Egyptian subjects, by artists artists based in Egypt.