François Desnoyer (1894–1972) - Double étude de portraits...

We present to you a pencil drawing on paper, executed recto verso, depicting two studies of female portraits by François Desnoyer (1894–1972). The recto features a profile of a woman with short hair, while a second study of a female face is drawn on the verso. The signature is visible on the recto, in the lower portion. Title: Double Study of Desnoyer's Female Portraits (Recto-Verso) Medium: Pencil on paper Artist: François Desnoyer (1894–1972) Provenance: Collection of Galerie Marcel Guiot. Overall size: 50 × 32 cm Period: Around 1920–1940 Condition: Good condition, with some marks and signs of wear on the paper François Desnoyer, born in Montauban in 1894 and died in Perpignan in 1972, is a major French painter, sculptor and lithographer of the 20th century. Passionate about drawing from childhood, he settled in Paris in 1912 to train in art, a momentum brutally halted by the First World War, during which he was taken prisoner. Released, he entered in 1921 the École des Arts Décoratifs before becoming a drawing teacher in the Paris region. From the 1920s, his works entered the major Paris salons and revealed a distinctive style at the crossroads of the avant-gardes, oscillating between cubism, Fauvism and social realism. His art is distinguished by a keen sense of geometric composition where form is born directly from pure, contrasting color. Close to the ideals of the Popular Front, he celebrated collective happiness and the emerging leisure society through large figurative compositions. A great traveler, he journeyed through North Africa and Asia, but it is above all the light of the Mediterranean that transformed his intense color palette. He settled permanently in the Pyrénées-Orientales, first in Sète and then in Saint-Cyprien, a region whose beaches and ports he painted tirelessly. An artist engaged in local cultural life, he founded the Saint-Cyprien Museum to which he bequeathed a substantial part of his personal collection.

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