Marcel Dyf - "Port de la Trinité"

The harbour of La Trinité-sur-Mer, a small picturesque port near Carnac in Brittany, observed delightfully in a superbly colourful and airy fashion by Marcel Dyf.

Born in Paris in 1899 Dyf spent his childhood holidays in Normandy. The artistic climate to which he was exposed in Paris and in Normandy was crucial during his youth, as innovative ideas and new thinking, born of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements, formed ever widening circles of influence in Europe. Swept up in the atmosphere, Dyf decided in his early twenties to give up his career in engineering and become an artist. He had little formal artistic training but owed much of his inspiration to the great masters of the past such as Rembrandt, whom he particularly admired, Vermeer and Tiepolo. In Provence, challenged by a new range of colours and light, by new landscapes and images and under the same intense sky that lent its brilliance to Van Gogh's art, Dyf graduated from painter to artist. Throughout these years Dyf principally painted in three areas

Dimensions

This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

Condition report

Stock number