Matinée aux Tuileries
(Morning at the Tuileries)

1938, pencil drawing, 24 x 31 cm
Coll. Gaston Bertrand Foundation

In 1938, Bertrand spent one month in Paris thanks to the grant awarded to him by the Grand Concours de Rome. Bertrand was, like many other foreign artists, fascinated and enchanted by the impressive perspectives and inviting parks of the French capital. The young reserved and solitary man spent long hours in the Louvre and strolled in the popular districts, in the parks and in the Luxembourg and Tuileries Gardens, observing the crowd.