Élie Anatole PAVIL (1873–1948). Rue de Paris at Night. Oil on canvas, signed lower right (faint mark). Bears an exhibition label on the back from the Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts. Height: 47 cm - Width: 61 cm Note: A painter of Ukrainian origin, Élie Anatole Pavil settled in Paris at the end of the 19th century before becoming a naturalized French citizen in 1911. Trained at the Académie Julian, he painted scenes of daily life, cafés, and gardens in the Impressionist style, with a particular focus on the effects of light. Associated with Parisian life during the Belle Époque and a representative of Montmartre, Élie Anatole Pavil was a frequent presence in Parisian salons and galleries, notably at the galleries of Georges Bernheim and Georges Petit.