GEO-FOURRIER (Lyon, 1998 - Quimper, 1966) Georges... Lot 48

GEO-FOURRIER (Lyon, 1998 - Quimper, 1966) Georges Fourrier, known as Seated woman, legs folded, probably Bororo. Pastel and ink lines monogrammed in the lower right corner. Height : 32 cm. Width: 26 cm (Sight). Geo-Fourrier spent five months in Equatorial Africa, from January to June 1931. He took 300 photographs and about sixty drawings. Fascinated, he describes the Bororo women in this way: "tall, slender, extremely racy (...) silent and proud". Praising their "astonishing beauty", he notes that they are dressed in "a long indigo gabak loincloth that covers their breasts and loins". See Coll, Geo-Fourrier Voyageur et Maître des Arts Décoratifs, published for the eponymous exhibition at the Forney Library in Paris from March 22 to July 16, 2022, Soubigou, Paris, 2022.