Louis Latapie drawing dated and signed portrait of Ellen Guejde with certificate of authenticity

Louis Latapie: drawing signed and dated 1943, with certificate of authenticity on the back by Louis Latapie's son
Portrait of Ellen Guejde, famous Norwegian actress in the 40s
Very good condition
Framed
h : 34 cm
width : 27 cm
View : 32 x 24 cm
FYI:
Louis Latapie was born on July 11, 1891 in Toulouse and died on July 2, 1972 in Avignon.
He was a famous French painter and engraver. His work develops, through still lifes and female nudes, to the limits of a powerfully colored cubism. In the '50s, the simplification of his forms brought him closer to abstraction.
Louis Latapie was born in Toulouse on July 11, 1891. His father, a journalist and director of the newspaper "Le télégramme", moved to Paris around 1900. Louis, who had been drawing since childhood, enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1910. He studied with Jean-Paul Laurens, but also attended the Académie Ranson, where he discovered Cubism with Paul Sérusier.
After completing his military service, Louis Latapie was mobilized in 1914. His older brother died early in the war. Over the course of ten campaigns, he was wounded three times and received two commendations. Returning to his studio in 1920, he became a teacher at the Académie Ranson and married Estelle Isch-Wall (1898-1923). This marriage produced his son Jean-Louis, godson of Georges Braque. He met Max Jacob, Roger Bissière, Jean Metzinger and Jacques Villon. From 1922, he presented his first exhibitions. In 1923, Georges Braque, Bissière, Ozenfant and Latapie formed the "Castors de Montsouris" association to build original cube-shaped houses. After the sudden death of his wife that same year, Louis Latapie moved to Toulon in 1925. There, he met Juan Gris and founded a painting academy.
Returning to Paris in 1927, Latapie married Renée Meurisse (1902-1971), giving birth in 1929 to Laure, a tapestry designer who, in 1954, married Roger Bissière's son. In 1930, he moved back to Toulon, continuing to give a few courses in Paris. Faced with financial difficulties, he practically stopped painting between 1932 and 1934 to relaunch his late father-in-law's photojournalism agency, the first in France, before selling it in 1936.
While working on a 40 m2 mural for the new Pierre de Coubertin stadium in Boulogne Billancourt, Latapie was mobilized in 1939 and returned to Paris in 1940. Selling two floors of his Parisian home, he bought the "Moulin Vieux" in Seine-Port in 1946, which he began to restore and set up his workshops. In 1951, several tapestries based on his cartoons were produced by the Beauvais and Gobelins manufactures, one of which was exhibited at the residence of the French consul general in Toronto. After two solo exhibitions in Paris in 1954 and 1956, his painting turned towards abstraction. In 1963, under the title Patafioles, he began writing his memoirs, which were published in 2005. In 1967, he resigned his "Moulin" in Seine-Port, returned to Paris, and in 1968 settled in Avignon. In 1969, he sold almost his entire studio to his dealer. In 1970, Latapie held a three-part exhibition in Italy.
After Louis Latapie's death on July 2, 1972 in Avignon, numerous exhibitions and retrospectives of his work were held in France, notably in Paris, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Toulouse, Lille and Bordeaux, as well as in Geneva, Switzerland, and Bilbao, Spain.

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