Georges Maurice Cloud (French, 1909 - 1973)Jazz Musician , 1929Watercolor on paper

8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches (framed 17 x 13 inches)Signed and dated George Maurice Cloud 1929 lower right.

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Georges Maurice Cloud

Georges Maurice Cloud was born in Brittany, France in 1909. He studied art and designin Escoublac and La Baule. In the 1930s, Cloud attended the Beaux-Arts Academy inParis. Cloud worked professionally as an architect and designer in both Paris andBrittany, and designed numerous Modern houses, interiors and custom pieces offurniture. An accomplished painter and fine artist, he also completed numerous muraland advertising commissions. He painted decorative frescoes and designed furniturefor many of the famed French ocean liners, such as the S.S. Ile de France and theNormandie. Cloud exhibited his work at the Salon des Sur-Independants and at othervenues throughout France. He died in 1973.