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Sailing Club at la Touquet.
Oil on Canvas.
Artist - Marcel Dyf.
Signed.
Marcel Dyf was born as Marcel Dreyfus on October 7, 1899 in Paris. He grew up in Normandy, in the towns of Ault, Deauville and Trouville. He started a career as an engineer, but soon decided to become a painter. In 1922 he moved to Arles, where he was trained as a painter and set up a studio.
He painted frescoes in the city halls of Saint-Martin-de-Crau and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He also painted frescoes in the Museon Arlaten and in the dining hall of the Collège Ampère, both of which are in Arles. He also designed windows inside the Église Saint-Louis in Marseille.* In 1935 Dyf moved to Maximilien Luce’s old studio on the Avenue du Maine in Paris. By 1940, because of the German invasion of France during the Second World War, he returned to Arles. He quickly joined the French Resistance in Corrèze in the Dordogne. He later moved back to Paris, and finally moved to Saint-Paul-de-Vence. However in the 1950s he started wintering in Paris and summering in Cannes, where he attracted the attention of American art collectors His work was exhibited and sold at the Petrides Gallery, the Salon d’Au-tomne, the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, as well as galleries in Cannes, Nice, Marseille and Strasbourg.
In 1954, he married Claudine (Godat) Dyf in Cannes, when she was only nineteen years old. They purchased a sixteenth-century hunting lodge in Bois dArcy near Versailles, and it became their primary residence. They also summered in Saint-Remy-de-Provence and Eygalières, He died on September 15, 1985 in Bois-d’Arcy.
Dimensions
60cm x 71.12cmThe BADA Standard
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