This lovely boudoir scene from Art Deco time was created by a renowned Austrian-Hungarian painter Richard Geiger, born 1870 in Vienna. The artist started in the Vienna Academy under Christian Griepenkerl and Eisenmenger and later in Paris in the studio of L.Flameng. From 1893 Geiger worked in Budapest as portrait and genre painter.

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart", Leipzig, 1999; Prof.H.Fuchs " Die Österreichischen Maler ", Vienna, 1975, AKL Index.Dr.Nagy "Dictionary of the hungarian artists"(in Hungarian).

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period frame.

Measurements: unframed w 19 3/4 " x h 15 3/4 " (50 x 40 cm); framed w 26 " x h 22 " (66 x 56 cm).

Condition: in very good condition