Pierre COMBET-DESCOMBES (1885 -1966) -- Nude 2

Pierre Combet-Descombes studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 1902 in the
architecture, then decorative art. He graduated from the School in 1905. Bonnardel, his teacher, leaves him
express oneself freely in all areas: male model, cityscapes, flowers,
Decorations...

He exhibited in Lyon from 1906. In 1909, he entered the lodge at the École des Beaux-Arts for the
decorative landscape competition and won the Ponthus-Cinier prize. In 1925, examples of his

His work was presented in a group exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He
set up decorative compositions for the town hall of the 7th arrondissement of Paris.

With a Baudelairean sensibility, Combet-Descombes celebrated the female body throughout his life.
By a muscular line of a single movement, a way of inscribing the model's body in space,
he makes this body, most often contemplated from above, from the top of a stepladder, a sign
Plastic of a rare sensuality.