Jacques Schultz-Dal (Paris, 1894 - 1964) Self-Portrait, c. 1940

Jacques Schultz-Dal (Paris, 1894 - 1964)
Self-Portrait, c. 1940

Signed lower right

Black chalk on blue paper
9 1/4 x 7 1/8 in
23.5 x 18 cm

Provenance
Artist’s studio sale
Private collection, Paris

Jacques Schultz-Dal was born in Paris in 1894 and died there in 1964. A painter and printmaker of remarkable technical assurance, he trained under Émile Jean Sulpis and Fernand Cormon, and began exhibiting at the Salon in 1920. He soon distinguished himself through the delicacy of his burin work, etchings and drawings. Awarded an honourable mention in 1921, a bronze medal in 1922, a silver medal in 1923 and a gold medal in 1928, he also received the Prix Leguay-Lebrun in 1925, a travel scholarship in 1926 and the Prix Belin-Dollet in 1930. For a time associated with Grez-sur-Loing, a celebrated artists’ colony, Schultz-Dal left behind a sensitive body of work, attentive to figures, landscapes and scenes of modern life. Some of his prints are now held by the CNAP, while the town of Grez-sur-Loing preserves, among other works, his Portrait of Fernande Sadler.