{"id":1302,"date":"2019-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tajan.com\/rena-gruau-a-lhonneur-le-15-mai\/"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:16:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:16:09","slug":"dessins-modernes-hommage-%c3%a0-la-femme-parisienne-par-ren%c3%a9-gruau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tajan.com\/en\/dessins-modernes-hommage-%c3%a0-la-femme-parisienne-par-ren%c3%a9-gruau\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Gruau \u00e0 l&#8217;honneur le 15 Mai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passionated by\u00a0fashion design, the italian <strong>Ren\u00e9 Gruau<\/strong> (1909 \u2013 2004), is internationally known for his fashion and advertising illustrations. As a real self-taught\u00a0artist, he published his first drawings in the Milan fashion magazine Lidel\u00a0when he was only\u00a015 years\u00a0old. This successful experience led him to in Paris in 1928 where he\u00a0started\u00a0to work for\u00a0famous\u00a0magazines\u00a0such\u00a0as Le Figaro.\u00a0It is at this time that he met another young fashion designer,\u00a0and his future closest friend, Christian Dior. Parisian fashion and female figures grew under his pencil curves in woman magazines.\u00a0Between \u00a01935 and 1939, Gruau illustrated\u00a0also for reviews F\u00e9mina, Marie-Claire, Vogue\u2026\u00a0Approached by the greatest fashion designers, he drew\u00a0for Balenciaga, Fath, Piguet, Givenchy, Rochas and many others. He was\u00a0not mobilized during the Second World War,\u00a0and he decided to go to Cannes where were\u00a0working the last french haute couture houses. Indeed, he was the first drawer to work with International Textiles since 1946 and he drew all the covers until 1984.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default\">\n<div id=\"file-34708\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg\">\n<h2 class=\"element-invisible\"><a href=\"\/en\/files\/image\/gruau1jpg\">gruau1.jpg<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dessins ren\u00e9 gruau\" title=\"dessins ren\u00e9 gruau\" class=\"media-element file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/image.invaluable.com\/privatelabel\/tajan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09205422\/gruau1.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"618\" \/>  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ren\u00e9 Gruau<\/strong>\u00a0came back to Paris in\u00a01947\u00a0after the war.\u00a0He joined his friend Christian Dior to create the post-war fashion until the mid-1980s. He was in charge of the advertissement of the first fragrance of the brand, Miss Dior.\u00a0Msiter\u00a0Dior has an entire faith in Gruau. He was totally free in his advertissement creations. In 1948, its success send him to the United States.\u00a0He\u00a0worked for Harper&#8217;s Bazaar and occasionally for Vogue. Then, he\u00a0became the exclusive artist of Flair magazine.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0in consideration of\u00a0his autonomy of creation and personal fulfillment, he decided to return to France to draw french fashion, represented by the figure of the Parisian\u00a0woman,\u00a0elegant and mysterious,\u00a0with his three iconic colors: <strong>red, black and white<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default\">\n<div id=\"file-34709\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg\">\n<h2 class=\"element-invisible\"><a href=\"\/en\/files\/image\/gruau2jpg\">gruau2.jpg<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dessins ren\u00e9 gruau\" title=\"dessins ren\u00e9 gruau\" class=\"media-element file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/image.invaluable.com\/privatelabel\/tajan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09205421\/gruau2.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"563\" \/>  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From 1956, he doveted himself to cabaret drawings. He drew the advertising campaigns of legendary parisian cabarets such as Le Lido (1994), Le Moulin Rouge (1961) or the Casino de Paris. From the 1950s until his death in 2004 in Rome, Ren\u00e9 Gruau has been nicknamed &#8220;the last survivor of the great fashion illustrators&#8221;.\u00a0Very rich, the work of Gruau is a true advocacy of women beauty represented by the parisian woman or the leader of review. Witness of his time, Gruau has also visibly marked several generations by his work, timeless,\u00a0in\u00a0constantly reinventing french elegance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0a\u00a0tribute to the world of Ren\u00e9 Gruau, and the insolence of feminine beauty, we will present during our <a href=\"https:\/\/auction.tajan.com\/en\/auction-catalog\/1913\">auction of May 15, 2019<\/a> a dozen drawings, gouaches and watercolors by Ren\u00e9 Gruau and other artists modern and impressionist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>May 15, 2019\u00a0at Espace Tajan, 37 rue des Mathurins 75008 PARIS or on the <a href=\"https:\/\/auction.tajan.com\/en\/infinitebidding.asp?method=getUpcomingAuctions\">Live platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern drawings sale, 15 May\u00a0:\u00a0Focus on Ren\u00e9 Gruau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auctions","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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