Jean Dupas Life and Works

The famous ship the Normandie, had an interior that was designed by many of the biggest stars of the 1925 Paris art deco exhibition. Top artists working on the ship included Ruhlmann, René Lalique the famed glass designer, Jean Dupas and Jean Dunand - 2 artists who worked on panels for the ship's smoking room and certain parts of the ship's upper class salon. The painted panels were done in an Egyptian style, which was considered a style at the height of modernity. The paintings portrayed horse-taming, grape-picking, fishing, dancing, and hunting. Dunand and Dupas, a famous muralist of the time, worked together on a 32 panel piece for the grand salon named 'the Chariot of Aurora'. It conveyed an allegorical history of navigation, and is to this day one of the greatest examples of art deco.

Dupas Art:

Portrait Studies
L'enlèvement d'Europe
La place du village
Les grands voiliers
Panel from 'The Chariot of Thetis'
Jeune femme aux colombes
Troubadour
Two elegantly Clad Women
Woman with Gazelles
Jeune femme aux fleurs exotiques et oiseaux roses
15ème Salon des Artistes décorateurs
Montmartre