Ernest Robert Noir (1864-1931) - Little girl, 1885

Ernest Robert Noir (1864-1931)
Little girl, 1885
Oil on panel in gilded frame
17 x 11.5 cm (unframed)
33 x 27 cm with frame
Signed, dedicated and dated 1885 top right
Accident in the upper part of the frame

Born in Paris in 1864. Died May 13, 1931 in Paris, by suicide following an illness. XIX°-XX° centuries. French artist.
Genre painter, portraits, figures, draftsman, watercolorist, illustrator. Postimpressionist.

He was the nephew of journalist Victor Noir, killed in 1870 by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, the emperor's cousin. Ernest Noir was a pupil of Castellani, a military painter, Yvon and then Hebert. He lived and worked in Paris, as well as at his family home in Bois-le-Roi from 1903. His first works were signed Ernest Noir and, from 1912, Robert Noir. He befriended the painter Etienne de Martenne and Louis de Monard, whom he helped steer towards sculpture.

He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris in 1884 with his first submission (Intérieur), then regularly from 1886 to 1908. From 1912 until 1920, he exhibited at the Salon des Humoristes. In 1913, he also appeared at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1903, he received an honorable mention at the Salon des Artistes Français. His work was shown in a single private exhibition in 1918, at the Galerie Devambez (Paris). Retrospectives of his work were presented in 1981 at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and in 1984-1985 at the Musée de Vernon.

A painter of figures, he excelled at vividly translating Parisian types: neighborhood children, young girls, vagabonds, beggars, wretches, prostitutes, or sometimes Dutch fishermen and peasants brought back from his sojourns in the Netherlands.

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