Jean Pandrigue de MAISONSEUL (1912-1999) Le Grand combat, 1947 Oil on panel Signed lower left. Signed, dated, titled and located on the back. (Losses). 240 x 190 cm Related work : La Rixe, oil on panel, 101 x 50 cm, reproduced on the artist's website: https://www.jeandemaisonseul.fr/avant-1948 We would like to thank Madame Sibylle de Maisonseul for the information she provided. "An informed theorist of past civilizations, Jean de Maisonseul drew his inspiration from ancient signs representative of a universal language which, until the Middle Ages, translated dreams and myths common to all mankind. He was committed, like his era, to this return to the primitive arts which, since the beginning of our century, have strongly influenced the plastic arts." Louis Eugène Angeli, Algiers, June-August 1949. Provenance: Galerie du Panthéon, Paris.