Roger BRÉVAL (19th-20th century)
Mosque in Egypt
Oil on panel, signed lower right
33 x 33 cm
A decorative painter born in Beauvais, Roger
Bréval worked between 1912 and 1913 on the
decoration of the dome of the Théâtre des
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées under the direction of
Maurice Denis. After several successive
in Egypt, he settled there permanently
permanently in 1920, before being appointed
professor of painting at the École des
Beaux-Arts in Cairo, a position he held
until his final departure in 1937. In
1924, he and Mahmoud Moukhtar founded the
group La Chimère, which left its mark on Cairo's
intellectual and artistic life in Cairo
intellectual and artistic life in Cairo for some fifteen years.
to promote painting and sculpture
inspired by Egyptian subjects, by artists
artists based in Egypt.
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