Michel Dureuil - "Le Port D'Antibes" 1958 (1958) Peinture par Paolo Vitelli

This is a desirable O/C from a well Know Artist Michel Dureuil

65 years old lovely technique in excellent condition. Great enjoyable investment rising prices year after year.


Artist: Michel Dureuil
Born: June 28th, 1929 - Paris
Died : April 9th, 2011 - Saint Jeannet
Nationality: Drapeau de la France - France
Formation: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Title: "Le Port D'Antibes" 1957-1960 series
Paiting Measures: 10" x 8"in. (aproxx. 26cm x 21cm)
Frame Measures: 18" x 15 1/2"in (aproxx. 47cm x 40cm)
Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Condition: Excellent



Biography

Second child Dureuil Fernand, Paris taxi driver originally from Cussy-en-Morvan and Anost in the Morvan region, and his wife Germaine Jaeck, Dureuil Michel was born at the foot of Montmartre in 1929 to 2 rue André Messager. It presents a very early age for drawing and realized sketchbooks of Paris during the Occupation. It initially follows the industrial design course at the professional drawing school at 185 Rue Saint-Maur in Paris 11th arrondissement, then entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts where he joined the studio of Jean Dupas in which he makes the acquaintance of his classmates: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Paul Ambille Joseph Archepel, Maurice Boitel, Paul Collomb, Mickaël Compagnion Emile Courtin, Geoffroy Dauvergne, who offers him a painting: The Temptation of Venus, Dechezelle Claude Roger forissier Garand, Roland GuillaumeL Paul Guiramand Jean Joyet Henriette Lambert, Jean Monneret PEDOUSSAUT André Olivier Pettit, René Quillivic André Plisson, Ernest Risse, Frederic Vidalens.

Jean Dupas, who had to undergo surgery, he was replaced in 1951 by Edmond Heuzé. He made the acquaintance of Michel Henry student Roger Chapelain-Midy who will present the latest on the gallerist Stephen Sassi.

He made frequent visits to Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche resides or his gallery. His meeting with the perfumer couturier Edward Molyneux who took him under his leadership, will give a boost to his career. It accompanies it in Jamaica in Montego Bay. Back in France he traveled in south-west France: Bayonne, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, visiting Catalonia, the Netherlands and Switzerland (Kandersteg).

The family left Paris to settle in Maintenon Eure-et-Loir. This is the army, it is incorporated in the regiment train Montlhéry and hand after his classes at Miliana in Algeria. Back in France, he married Michelle Bremen that will give him a daughter Caroline in 1955. The couple leaves to live in Biot, to Clausonnes, Edward Molyneux property in the Alpes-Maritimes. When Molyneux went to live in Monte Carlo, the Dureuil return to Maintenon.

It will go live in the Luberon, in Biot, and will be permanently located in Saint Jeannet or he dies in 2011.

Paintings
1960, La Toile Jaune, Antibes
1960, Menton
1962, Voiliers au port (Antibes), (Bloom Fine Art & Antiques Inc)
Le marché d'Antibes
La Baie des Anges
Le Vieux Nice
Le Fauteuil
La route du village Luberon
Saint-Michel l'observatoire-Le Luberon (vente de la collection Étienne Sassi, hôtel des ventes de Cannes, le 10 mars 2012, lot no 66)
Antibes, retour au port (vente coll Sassi, Hôtel des Ventes de Cannes le 10 mars 2012, lot no 67)
Quai Vauban à Antibes (vente collection Sassi, Hôtel des Ventes de Cannes, le 10 mars 2012, lot no 68)
Le Vieux Nice (vente collection Sassi, Hôtel des Ventes de Cannes le 10 mars 2012, lot no 69)
En attendant la promenade (vente collection Sassi, Hôtel des Ventes de Cannes le 10 mars 2012, lot no 70)
La Vigne en hiver dans le Luberon (vente collection Sassi, Hôtel des Ventes de Cannes, le 10 mars 2012, lot no 71)
Barques au port (vente collection Sassi, Hôtel des Ventes de Cannes, le 10 mars 2012, lot no 72)
Monte Carlo (Arthur James Galeries,)
Dimanche après-midi à Valbonne (Étude de Provence, vente du 7 mars 2010, lot no 352, Samilhac MOA)


Salons
1951, Salon des artistes français, (sociétaire):
1951, Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts

Expositions, galeries
1951, galerie Van Rick (Jean Van der Vinck), fondée en 1925 au 60 Boulevard Malesherbes
1960, galerie André Weil, Paris
1961, galerie Arthur Tooth & sons Ltd Londres, en octobre-novembre. Galerie fondée en 1842 par Haymarket. Elle cessa ses activités dans les années 1970.
1965, galerie Arthur Tooth Londres
1968, galerie André Weil, Paris
1968, exposition à la galerie d'art de l'Hôtel Negresco à Nice
1970, galerie Ror Volmar, 58 rue de Bourgogne à Paris du 6 au 19 novembre.
Wally Findlay Galleries à Chicago et à Miami.
1992, galerie Étienne Sassi, 14 Avenue Matignon à Paris du 24 septembre au 21 octobre.
Collections publiques[modifier | modifier le code]
Collections de l'école nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris.

Bibliographie
Noel Barber, romancier et journaliste au Daily Mail, Michel Dureuil, plaquette en Français et Anglais pour l'exposition chez Arthur Tooth en 1961, Arthur Dent & Sons Ltd, première édition seconde en 1965.
Paul W. Gallico, Michel Dureuil, plaquette de l'exposition à la galerie Ror Volmar en 1970.
Alain Valtat, Geoffroy Dauvergne (1922-1977), Catalogue Raisonné, 1996,Sceaux, 483.p. BnF (FRBNF 35857851).

Thèmes connexes

PortoBarcosArte FrancesaOleo Sobre CanvasOil In Canvas