Study of Poppies – Original Floral Composition by Louis Curtat
Elegant composition of red poppies.
Dimensions: 62 x 47 cm
Condition: Outer edges of sheet torn, with several tears coming in from the edges. Soiling and strong crease across the center.
Louis Curtat
October 15, 1867 (Bussigny) - November 1, 1944 (Lausanne)
Also known as: Louis-Eugène-Alexandre Curtat
Louis Curtat was the son of a farming family from Bussigny (Vaud, Switzerland) and studied engraving and industrial design in Mulhouse, France in particular with the painter Eugène Burnand. He also worked and studied at the 'Ecole des arts décoratifs in Paris. Returning to Switzerland in 1909, he settled in Lausanne where he specialized in watercolor portraits and city vues, documenting the streets of older parts of the city which were beginning to disappear.
