Lot 23099: HENRI VICTOR LESUR (French 1863-1900) Untitled

HENRI VICTOR LESUR (French 1863-1900) Untitled (Courtyard with Maidens) Oil on panel Signed lower right: Henri Lesur In chalk verso: 887 16-1/4 x 12-3/4 inches (41.1 x 32.4 cm) Provenance: Harry Knippel, Dallas Crow Art Partnership Collection, Dallas, Texas Henri Victor Lesur was born in Roubaix, France in 1863 and was educated at the Écôle des Beaux Arts before he debuted at the Salon in 1887, where he won a medal for his submission. He was awarded medals for his portraits at the 1889 and 1900 Expositions Universelles as well. In addition to his primary artistic focus, Lesur also painted genre scenes of fashionably dressed women such as the two young ladies in the present courtyard vista. Lesur enjoyed depicting the more playful side of French society and he did so with a vivid use of color. He exhibited at the Salon for the last time in 1895, five years before his death.