HIPPOLYTE CASIMIR GOURSE (1870-1932)

A CLASSICAL BUST DRAPED IN A PANTHER SKIN
Monogrammed l.m.
Oil on paper
63.5 x 49.5 cm
 
PROVENANCE:
By descent in the artist's family, France;
From whom acquired by the previous owner
 
 
 
 
Hippolyte Gourse was born in Toulouse, and studied under the artists Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1895 to 1908 and won a bronze medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition. In 1906, Gourse won a travel grant at the Marseille Colonial Exhibition of that year, and made several trips to Algeria and Tunisia. He also took part in the Salon de la Société Coloniale des Artistes Français in 1924.