MADELEINE LUKA ( 1894-1989) Study for the painting "Baigneuses" 1928 charcoal and colored pencil signed upper right 65x47.5 cm Biblio :*For a reproduction of the painting, see : Bertrand Poirot-Delpech "Madeleine Luka, peintures", Editions André Sauret, Paris, 1976, n°17, p.33 Madeleine Luka began painting at the age of eighteen under the guidance of her father, an amateur painter. She exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne in 1923, and went on to take part in numerous group and solo exhibitions in France and abroad. Her paintings, executed between 1920 and 1930, the so-called "neo-primitive" period, are devoted to scenes of adolescence. The period from 1930 to 1940, known as "Romantic", was devoted to maternity scenes and rural figures. The following decade was devoted to family themes.