BOUY Gaston
READING ELEGANT LADY
Pastel heightened with white chalk on paper: 28 x 49 cm / 11 x 19.3 in
Signed lower left
Painter of figures, portraits, interiors with figures and landscapes; pastellist.
Gaston Bouy was a pupil of Amédée Bourson in Belgium. He studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and the Nationale.
Period:
Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) 1866 - 1943
French School
Exhibitions:
Paris
Literature:
E. Bénézit, "Dictionary of Artists", Paris 2006, Vol. 2, p. 1066-1067.