GOMERY, EMERIC (1902-1969)

 "Artist & His Muse" (c.1950) 
oil on canvas board
40 x 50cm
signed upper right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Gomery was a respected French-Hungarian painter and draftsman. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest under famous Hungarian painter, Jozsef Rippl-Ronai, then in Berlin. He relocated in to France in the 1930s and was naturalized in 1939. Whilst in Paris, he began as a theatre set designer, and also created humorous illustrations, and posters. During World War II, Gomery fled to Switzerland to avoid capture as a Jewish man in Paris. Having survived the Holocaust, he returned to Paris after the War. He was best known for his impressive Picasso-inspired Cubist paintings of animals and figures. He also worked as an art teacher, instructing several influential artists.