Gaston Fontaine - Buste de Guinéenne, Sambaïlo

Gaston Fontaine (1907-1999)
Oil on Wood
Bust of a young Guinean
H 65x50 cm
1939
Signed and dated

Gaston Fontaine is an orientalist and africanist artist who notably exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1940. He is mentioned in the book  'Africanist painters' by Lynne Thornton.