French painter Roger Nivelt was a well-known painter and sculptor for his African motifs as one of the so-called “Africanists”. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. During World War I he became ill from the Spanish Flu but was fortunate to fully recover. From 1925 Nivelt started extensive study trips to Africa, where he discovered his talent for painting landscapes and African people in everyday poses. He then taught art in Senegal, Gambia and Côte d’Ivoire. He also opened an art studio in Algeria. From 1936 Nivelt lived in Paris again and in 1941 he married painter Hélène Farey. A likely candidate for his submitted works is a drawing with charcoal and red chalk in the size 48 x 64 cm. It shows the fight between Elyas and Trottet in 1932.
France