Yves Decaudan - La dame en rouge

Painting depicting a seascape titled "The Lady in Red" - 2026
This acrylic painting on canvas signed Yves Decaudan in the bottom left presents a stylized coastal scene.
In the foreground, a female silhouette wearing a bright red dress and a white hat stands upright on a pale beach surface. Her shadow on the ground stretches to the right.
Behind her rises a tall parasol pine with a nearly white-pink trunk, whose very dense dark green foliage spreads across the upper part of the composition. The background is occupied by rounded masses of dark vegetation bordering an expanse of intense azure-blue water, evoking a Mediterranean landscape.
The artist favors bold, flat passages, without complex gradients, which gives a graphic, modern, and uncluttered appearance.
Close to synthétisme or modern Fauvism, the scene is simplified to the essentials without superfluous details. An atmosphere of vacation, serenity, and nostalgia emanates from the canvas, capturing a suspended moment by the sea.
Painting by the Breton artist Yves Decaudan – 1954
Yves Decaudan's work sits in a colorful figurative vein, heavily influenced by Fauvism and the Pont-Aven school, with a particular attachment to coastal Breton scenes. His works frequently depict moments of calm, reading, or daydreaming outdoors, in a maritime or Mediterranean setting where time seems suspended. The artist's work is characterized by expressive and poetic figuration, driven by a keen sense of color and the synthesis of forms. The artist favors pure, intense blocks of color, such as deep blue juxtaposed with bright red, creating an immediate and luminous visual tension. The decorative elements are outlined and pared down, going to the essential without dwelling on anatomical detail or strict realism, which brings his work closer to Fauvism or art posters. His subjects, often solitary and maritime, convey an impression of stillness, serenity, or daydreaming suspended in time. Through backgrounds worked in texture or speckled with light touches, he establishes a poetic rather than geometric depth.
Paintings exhibited in numerous private collections in Europe, North America, Africa and Oceania, canvas exhibited at the Paris Autumn Salon – 2022
Delivered with certificate of authenticity, signature on the verso
Acrylic on cotton canvas, wooden frame, unframed, size 80 x 80 cm
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