UNITED-KINGDOM
Director: Stephen Ongpin
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art is based in Mayfair in London and specializes in drawings, watercolours and oil sketches dating from the 15th to the 21st centuries.
With over thirty-five years of experience as a dealer and agent in the field, Stephen serves a client base comprised of private collectors, museums and first-time buyers across the globe.
The gallery mounts wide-ranging annual exhibitions, accompanied by scholarly catalogues, and participates in art fairs in London, Maastricht, Paris and New York.
François-Joseph GUIGUET
Corbelin 1860-1937 Corbelin
Self Portrait
Black and white chalk, with stumping, on brown paper
328 x 306 mm. (12 7/8 x 12 in.)
Born in the Dauphiné, François-Joseph Guiguet received his initial training from the Lyonnais painter François-Auguste Ravier before entering the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and eventually completing his artistic education in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Guiguet made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1885, and became best known for paintings and genre subjects of women and children.
As a contemporary writer has noted, ‘When you look at a pencil drawing by François Guiguet, you immediately sense that you are looking at a French drawing... François Guiguet was always a great draughtsman. He never painted a picture without first making numerous studies. He never drew a portrait without having first tried many times in pencil to find the right attitude, mise en page and expression. In fact, he takes extreme pleasure in this. He loves drawing for its own sake. Any opportunity to have a pencil in his hand is good for him. He has covered thousands of pages with doodles, sketches and highly detailed works. Collectors took away the most decisive ones. So many charming and successful works were scattered to the four corners of France.’