René THOMSEN 1897-1976, Large "Nude lying down

Oil on canvas signed lower right.
87 x 114 cm.
René Thomsen, French painter and engraver of the École de Paris, born in Paris in 1897, died in Versailles in 1976.
Son of a sculptor and friend of Dr. Paul Gachet, Vincent van Gogh's protector. His mother, who became Henri Barbusse's secretary, then Cécile Sorel's, introduced him to Théophile Steinlen. He was a student of Louis Anquetin and Fernand Cormon at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts.
Mobilized during the First World War, he did not stop drawing and painting Scenes of soldiers. A set of these drawings became part of the collection of the painter and sculptor Fernand Belmonte who donated them to the town hall of Méry-sur-Marne where they are kept today. Another theme that Thomsen tackled at the same time was that of the Filles de joie. In 1919, a time of great material insecurity when he knew Maurice Loutreuil, Manuel Ortiz de Zarate, Jules Pascin and Amedeo Modigliani, he discovered the Colarossi Academy with Chaïm Soutine and Isaac Dobrinsky.
A member of the Salon d'Automne in 1921, he received encouragement from Louis Vauxcelles, Élie Faure and Joachim Gasquet. François Fosca, in 1927, considered his painting "Le repos" as the best work of the Salon des indépendants. In 1931-1932, René Thomsen stayed at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid as a laureate of the Velázquez Prize and a scholarship holder of the city of Paris.
Settled in Paris, he travelled throughout France from Cayeux-sur-Mer to Avignon, visiting Spain and Morocco (the city of Fez in particular). René Thomsen also wrote: we note, signed and published by him in 1968, a study on Edouard Manet. The city hall of Versailles honored him with the city's painting medal.
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