Marcel Dyf (1899-1985) - Claudine Dyf à la lecture

DYF Marcel (1899-1985)

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Oil on canvas,
Signed bottom right,

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Mrs. Claudine DYF, wife of the painter.

Beautiful work by the painter Marcel Dyf depicting a portrait of his wife Claudine Dyf while she is reading a book in an interior.
The artist paid particular attention to the details in his composition: the flowers, the hair, and the gentle expression on the face.
His wife was a source of inspiration for the artist whom he portrayed on many occasions.

Very young, Marcel Dyf drew and frequented the Louvre; childhood holidays in Normandy gave him a lifelong love of the sea and marine skies.
When his studies were finished, his first job took him to the south of Morocco, where he was dazzled by the light and the landscapes and decided to devote his life to painting.
In 1923, he settled in the south, in Arles, where a hard but exhilarating apprenticeship began, shaping the painter in a mythical place, welcomed and supported by many intellectual and notable friends of Arles.
He notably painted the murals for the town halls of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer and Saint-Martin-de-Crau.

During World War II, he joined the resistance in the maquis. At the end of the war, Marcel Dyf split his time between his Paris atelier and the Midi.
"The tour de force is rare enough. He had the reserve and the elegance of a lord, and the simplest people felt perfectly at ease with him. Often penniless as a gypsy, he remained in sumptuous simplicity like a patron. He had so much elegance and radiance that on occasions when you helped him, you felt obliged to him. He was charm made flesh, and that almost did harm to his painting. It gave the impression of such ease that it sounded superficial, whereas it was learned, demanding, rigorous and coordinated. This is what, over the years, has become increasingly clear. And one realizes how audacious it was." YVAN AUDOUARD

From 1944, he held three exhibitions at the Petrides Gallery in Paris, returned to Arles, then to St Paul de Vence.
In 1954, in Cannes, he married Claudine and returned to settle in the Paris region at Bois-d'Arcy in 1959.
As early as 1955, his works were exhibited at the Frost & Reed Gallery in London.
His talent is recognized today internationally.

Dimensions: 55 x 46 cm unframed and 70 x 61 cm with its original goldwood frame in XIX-style.

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