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Marcel Dyf
Cannes et le vieux port - Post Impressionist Oil, Landscape by Marcel Dyf

c.1940

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Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by sought after French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The piece depicts people enjoying a sunny winter's day at the port in Cannes on the French Riviera in the south of France. There are families seated on benches or walking through the bare trees and sailing boats can bet seen on the blue water in the distance. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 22"x25" Unframed: 15"x18" Provenance: With thanks to Mme. Claudine Dyf for confirming the location and authenticity of this work Private collection - United States Marcel Dyf abandoned engineering to become a painter. He spent some months studying in a Paris studio, then explored Provence and settled first in Arles and later in Paris. He then divided his time between the Paris area and Cannes. Dyf's art derived from classical tradition and from moderate Post-Impressionism. His landscapes, which form the greater part of his output, are often painted in shades of ochre and in horizontal planes, with additional matter worked in. He produced many in the Île-de-France, in Provence where he lived, in Brittany and Normandy, in Venice, Morocco and Israel. He also painted portraits and figures, in the 1950s often of gypsy women, and frequently of his wife Claudine. He produced decorative work in the town halls of Stes-Maries de la Mer (Camargue) and St-Martin-de-Crau (Arles), and painted frescoes in the Musée Arlaten in Arles in 1936. In Paris he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, the Salon d'Automne and the Tuileries. He also had solo shows in Paris, three of them at the Galerie Petrides, and from 1956 in London at the Frost and Reed Gallery. In 1995 the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône put on a retrospective exhibition of his early work, and in 1999 an exhibition at L'Espace Dyf in Bois-d'Arcy commemorated the hundredth anniversary of his birth. Museum and Gallery Holdings: Geneva (Petit Palais): Gipsy Scene Nice (Mus. de la Ville): The Place Masséna at the Liberation Pittsburgh (Carnegie MA): Flowers
  • Creator:
    Marcel Dyf (1899-1985, French)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1940
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Very good original condition.
  • Gallery Location:
    Marlow, GB
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: LFA02071stDibs: LU415311125102

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