Detroit Lyon (1857-1955)
View of the south of France.
Oil on canvas signed lower right.
49 x 59.5 cm
Certificate of authenticity.
Leon DETROY, French.
A painter rooted in the Post-Impressionist movement, Leon Detroy entered the ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1879, where he learned the basics of art with Jean-Paul Laurens. He met Claude Monet, then it was while reading a novel by George Sand that he decided to devote his painting to the description of landscapes as part of the Crozant school.
He has always favoured his artistic itineraries from Northern Europe to Northern Africa via Italy, and in France, from the South to Brittany and the Creuse valley. The latter exerted such a fascination that he devoted several spectacular landscape paintings to it from 1881 onwards. Characterized by a tempered divisionism and clear-cut colours, Leon Detroy's painting is one of those that heralds Fauvism.
He was much appreciated by the critics but also by his colleagues and painter friends, Vuillard, Bonnard, Friez and Anquetin.
He was able to move away from Impressionism to develop a personal aesthetic, a subtle balance of audacity and moderation.
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