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Charles Picart le Doux'Ginette', French Art Deco Portrait1932
1932
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French oil on canvas portrait of a young beauty by Charles Alexandre René Picart Le Doux. Signed and dated bottom right. There is an exhibition label with number and title 'Ginette' applied to the rear stretcher. Presented in plain gilt wood frame.
A charming and characterful portrait of a young girl in a fine dress, velvet ribbon to her neck and fashionable short haircut. Her soulful eyes have been beautifully captured by the artist as have the tones to her skin. A very accomplished and engaging portrait, one can feel the connection between the sitter and the artist.
Le Doux was born July 12, 1881 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and died September 11, 1959 in the 14th arrondissement of the same city was is a French painter, engraver also a poet and writer.
The descendant of an old Parisian family. The painter's grandfather, Louis Charles Auguste, was a glass painter and executed, among other things, the large south rose window of Notre Dame de Paris. Friend of Corot, Vernet and Gauthier, it was through him that the young Charles was introduced to drawing.
Charles Picart le Doux studied at the Janson de Sailly high school before definitively committing to an artistic career by first taking courses at the Académie Julian then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1902. The painter lived in Montmartre and frequented the Agile Rabbit where he met Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo and created friendships with René Arcos, Charles Vildrac, Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains with which he will support the group of the Abbey in Créteil, but also with Pierre Mac Orlan, Luc Durtain, Francis Carco, etc.
From 1903 he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, of which he became a member, then at the Salon des Indépendants and that of the Tuileries. In 1905 he painted a portrait and then a nude of Misia Sert. He exhibited once again at the Salon d'Automne of 1906.
The interest aroused by his first paintings led the BLOT gallery in Paris to devote the first major exhibition to him. The Vildrac gallery opened its doors to him, soon followed by many others in France.
It was with many of his friends mentioned above that he actively participated in the election and then the reception of Jean Pierre Brisset "prince of thinkers" on April 13, 1913, a memorable hoax initiated by Jules Romains.
In the same spirit, and the same year, Picart le Doux became a member of the UMBM (Union Maritime de la Butte Montmartre) chaired by Pierre Le Prou and whose club house was established by the owner of the hotel restaurant "le Tertre" a Mr. Bouscarat who opened a room on the first floor for them. This room overlooking the Place du Tertre was quickly transformed into a museum, exhibiting books, nautical charts, model boats, nets, out of order navigation instruments, herring hanging in a birdcage and two skulls under a globe, one of child, the other adult bearing the label "Christopher Columbus at 7 years old" and on the other 'the same at his death'. Unlike the nautical clubs of the time, this one was open and even strongly recommended to ladies. At this time he also taught at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
During the First World War, Picart le Doux was drafted into the army where he worked as a medical orderly in the trenches. where sadly he was wounded.
In the 1920s, Picart Le Doux exhibited in Paris, at the Charpentier and Drouant-David galleries. Museums from around the world acquired 23 canvases (Paris, New York, Moscow, Tokyo (imperial collection) In 1921, he befriended Aristide Maillol.
In 1933, Charles Picart Le Doux received the Legion of Honor. He had various exhibitions that year in France and Luxembourg, in particular.
In the years 1934-1939, he decorated part of the salons of the liner Le Normandie and the Hélène Bouchet high school in Paris. He won the Gold Medal of the International exhibition. He held a major exhibition at the Charpentier gallery, inaugurated by the Ministers of National Education and Fine Arts. He illustrated a large number of authors: Albert Samain (Hyalis), Charles Vildrac (Livre d'amour), Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains and Pierre Mac Orlan.
During the Second World War, the painter settled in Touraine. He stayed first with Jules Romains in Saint-Avertin, then in Tours, where he decorated the prefecture and painted more than a hundred paintings and portraits.
After the war, he returned to Paris to his studio in rue Boisonade. He participated in the decoration of the town hall of the 14th arrondissement and held exhibitions in Saint-Nazaire, Angers, Amiens, Moulin, Besançon, Rouen and Caen in particular, at the museum of Metz and Nancy and abroad, in San Francisco and Oslo. The State commissioned a painting, 'The Poets of the Abbey' from him (Jules Romains, Georges Duhamel, Charles Vildrac, Luc Durtain).
He held his last exhibition at the Mariac gallery in 1959.
- Creator:Charles Picart le Doux (1881 - 1959, French)
- Creation Year:1932
- Dimensions:Height: 18.9 in (48 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- Condition:Some scuffing to the paint surface top right and edges where the frame has rubbed.
- Gallery Location:Cotignac, FR
- Reference Number:Seller: LG/LeDoux1stDibs: LU1430212370222
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).
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