Charles Picart le Doux
The Italian, Oil on Canvas, 1924
1924

Name: The Italian, Oil on Canvas, 1924
Brand: Charles Picart le Doux
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Oil on canvas by Charles PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959), France, 1924. The Italian. Very beautiful work where post-impressionism embellished with a few cubist touches form a harmonious whole, luminous, in the service of the purity, even the chastity, of the character. Exhibited at the Salon d'Automne at the Grand Palais. With frame: 82.5x69 cm - 32.5x27.2 inches ; without frame: 65x50.5 cm - 25.6x19.9 inches. 15P format. Label on the back dated 1924. Beautiful Montparnasse wooden frame. Signed "Picart Le Doux" lower left (see photo). A lack of material very close to the signature that we left. The condition of painting and frame is excellent. Charles Alexandre Picart Le Doux was born on July 12, 1881 in Paris. Student at the Académie Julian then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1902, he first lived in Montmartre and frequented Le Lapin Agile where he met Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo (two years old younger) and creates unshakeable friendships with René Arcos, Charles Vildrac, Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains with the group of the Abbaye in Créteil. From 1904, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in which he became a member, then at the Salon des Indépendants. He exhibited at the Charles Vildrac gallery and participated with Jules Romains and their friends in the election of the "prince of thinkers", namely Jean-Pierre Brisset, whose portrait he will execute. In 1910, the Biot gallery devoted his first major solo exhibition to him. That same year, he was received at the National Society of Fine Arts. The First World War plunges him, as a nurse, closer to the horror. He will come out broken and definitively won over to theses and pacifist movements to which he will always have his support. After the armistice and a period of depression, he threw himself deeply into the work trying to "forget the technique" for the benefit of the model. In 1921, he met Aristide Maillol with whom he found a faithful friendship of which the painter still testifies some time before his death. From 1923, he exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries then at the Charpentier and Drouant-David galleries in Paris as well as in San Francisco, New York, Rio de Janeiro, London (Ohana gallery), Berlin and Munich. In 1934-1935 he left Montmartre to occupy a studio 40, rue Boissonade in Montparnasse. The artist creates a decorative set for the Normandy liner. The national museums show many paintings his. A great gold medal at the 1937 World Fair, Charles Picart Le Doux was in charge of decorating the Lycée Hélène-Boucher in Paris. In 1940, installed in Touraine, first at Jules Romains in Saint Avertin, then in Tours, the painter decorates the prefecture and produces many paintings on the theme of Touraine de Balzac (castle of Saché). During this period he produced a hundred portraits. Returning to Paris in 1945, he again became a professor at the Académie Colarossi and at that of the Grande Chaumière, where he had taught since 1927. Charles Picart Le Doux carried out a decoration for the town hall of the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Numerous exhibitions are dedicated to the painter in Amiens, Angers, Caen, Moulins, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, the museums of Metz and Nancy, San Francisco, Oslo ... The Mariac gallery organized his last exhibition in 1959. Manly painter, powerful in his landscapes but also sensual in his nudes and deep in his portraits, Charles Picart Le Doux was, as Jules Romains wrote, the last true impressionist, comparable to Renoir in research, until the end of his life from the perfection of his art. The artist was never part of the Impressionist movement, which ended at birth. He is the father of the painter Yves Picart Le Doux, of the cardboard painter Jean Picart Le Doux and of Jacqueline Picart Le Doux. He had a studio 13, rue Paul-Féval in Paris. Exhibitions Salon d'Automne Salon des Indépendants Salon des Tuileries Galerie Bernheim Galerie Charpentier Galerie Drouant-David Galerie Biot Galerie Mariac San Francisco New York Rio de Janeiro Londres, galerie Ohana Berlin Munich Oslo Amiens Angers Caen Moulins Rouen Saint-Nazaire Musées de Metz et de Nancy Museums Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne Château de Saint-Ouen New York Moscou Tokyo Illustrated works Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde de Maurice Maeterlinck, illustré de trente bois dessinés et gravés, Paris, 1919 Les Fleurs du mal, pièces condamnées de Charles Baudelaire, illustré de dessins au lavis, Paris, 1931 Le Lac, fresque du lycée Hélène-Boucher à Paris, 1938 Colomba de Prosper Mérimée, 1946 Œdipe en colère de Jean Variot, illustré de pointes sèches, Paris, les Amis du livre moderne, 1955 Le Lys dans la vallée, Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu et des œuvres de Balzac sur la Touraine L'Écharpe de suie de Pierre Mac Orlan, illustré de seize aquarelles originale Le Désert de Bièvres de Georges Duhamel Histoire d'âne pauvre et de cochon gras de Paul Vaillant-Couturier, éditions La Farandole, 1956 Jean sans pain, histoire pour tous les enfants de Paul Vaillant-Couturier, 1921 Publications Monelle de Montmartre (récit), préface de Pierre Mac Orlan, illustrations de l'auteur, Paris, 1953. Discrédit (poèmes), Michel Brient éditeur, 1956. Nacres, thrènes et poèmes, Paris, 1959.

Creator:

Charles Picart le Doux (1881 - 1959, French)

Creation Year:

1924

Dimensions:

Height: 32.49 in (82.5 cm)Width: 27.17 in (69 cm)Depth: 2.37 in (6 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style:

Post-Impressionist

Period:

1920-1929

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Saint Amans des cots, FR

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1088213810452

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Charles Picart le Doux

Charles Alexandre Picart Le Doux (July 12, 1881—September 11, 1959) was a French painter, engraver, book illustrator, poet and author. He was part of the artistic milieu of Montmartre in the years before World War I, and active in the circle of Jules Romains and the Abbaye de Créteil group of artists and writers. A celebration of his work, the book Picart Le Doux, was published in 1945, and in 1950 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He was born and died in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. His son Jean Picart Le Doux (1902-1982) also became a notable artist. He studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly before committing to an artistic career, first taking courses at the Académie Julian under Marcel Baschet, then at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in Saint-Germain-des-Prés until 1902, when he moved to Montmartre. In his memoir Monelle de Montrmatre (1953) he wrote, Not satisfied by the teaching, practically nil, at the École des Beaux-Arts, I spent hours of pictorial incubation in the Durand-Ruel gallery. I discovered Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissaro. I had the revelation that painting should be "the expression of life.'' In Montmartre, Picart Le Doux frequented the Lapin Agile cabaret, where he met and became close friends with Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo, only two years his junior but whom Picart Le Doux recalled as "very young then, seeming to live on the margins of life." Among his wide circle of friends and colleagues in pre-World War I Montmartre were many writers and fellow artists. In his memoir, Picart Le Doux mentions Maurice Asselin, George Bottini, Charles Camoin, Ricciotto Canudo, Francis Carco, Gaston Couté, Andre Deslignières, Guus van Dongen, Roland Dorgelès, Maurice-Edme Drouard [fr], Yvonne George, Max Jacob, Pierre Mac Orlan, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, Alexandre Mercereau, Fernand Piet, Pablo Picasso, Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, Maurice Princet, Paul Reboux, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, and Félix Vallotton. Picart Le Doux first exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants in 1904, and later at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon des Tuileries, and the Salon d’Automne, of which he became a member. His first one-man exhibition was at the Paris gallery of Eugéne Blot, in 1910. He also exhibited at the gallery of Charles Vildrac at 11 rue de Seine. Picart Le Doux painted self-portraits, portraits of family and notable friends, still lifes, impressionistic landscapes, and murals. He was also, for more than four decades, a prolific illustrator of books. In 2023, the auction house of Christophe Joron-Derem held an extensive auction of works by Picart Le Doux at Hôtel Drouot in Paris. More than 150 lots included paintings, watercolors, drawings, and illustrated books, with subjects ranging from landscapes, portraits and self-portraits to nudes and erotic drawings. His 1908 nude portrait of Misia Sert, set a 21st-century auction record for the artist, EUR 11,960 (including fees).