Jules CAVAILLES (1901-1970). "Le dessert". Oil on canvas signed lower right, countersigned and titled on the back (minor soiling). Height : 61 cm - Width : 61 cm Note: a native of the Tarn region, Jules started out as a draftsman mines in Carmaux, Jules Cavaillès went on to study at the at the Académie Julian in 1925 and exhibited at various Paris Salons. In 1937, he decorated the Languedoc Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle and other decorative panels. His work is imbued with the influence of the Fauves, with its juxtaposition of colors, while at the same time striving to represent reality with a desire to celebrate its beauty. He thus exhibited on numerous occasions alongside of the so-called "Poetic Reality" painters who, during the who, between the wars, sought to depict the joie de vivre of life.