Nicolas Sternberg - The Black Dress

Nicolas Sternberg - The Black Dress

£1,900

NICOLAS STERNBERG

(Hungarian 1902-1960)


The Black Dress


Signed and dated l.l.: N Sternberg / 1939

Grisaille watercolour

Framed


65 by 48.5 cm., 25 ½ by 19 in.

(frame cm., in.)


Born in Nagyvarad, now the Romanian city of Oradea, but then part of Hungary.  He initially studied in Budapest and Munich before moved to Paris in 1921 where he studied at the Academie Julian.  Worked as a portrait painter and was a prolific illustrator.  He provided illustrations for several books in the 1920s and 1930s and worked for a number of magazines such as Elle.  In 1929 he held a successful exhibition at the Georges Petit Galerie, Paris.


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