Marcel COSSON (1878-1956). The foyer of the opera. Oil on canvas signed lower left. Height : 60 cm - Width : 73 cm Note: a post-impressionist artist, he depicts bourgeois Parisian life at the beginning of the 20th century, with opera, ballet, circus and theater as recurring themes. Active on the Paris art scene, he presented his work at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and at the Salon des Tuileries, before being exhibited in several galleries, including Galerie Nationale, Jean de Ruaz, Galeries Aubry, Bareiro... He depicts the female figures of dancers and the intimate world of their environment, influenced by Degas, but also by the Fauves in his treatment of color.