Gabriel Dauchot Course De Chevaux A Longchamp (Horses Race In Longchamp) C.1960 Painting

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This artwork "Course de chevaux a Lonchamp (Horses Race in Lonchamp) c.1960, is an oil painting on canvas by noted … Read more This artwork "Course de chevaux a Lonchamp (Horses Race in Lonchamp) c.1960, is an oil painting on canvas by noted French artist Gabriel Dauchot, 1917-1990. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 18.65 x 7.5 inches, framed size is 21.85 x 11.85 inches. Custom framed in a wooden green frame. It is in excellent condition, the frame have a minor scratch a the lower side, barely visible.

About the artist:

Gabriel Dauchot was born on May 10, 1927 in Livry-Gargan 4 . Supported by the encouragement of his father, an architect, and painting from the age of fourteen 5 , Gabriel Dauchot, whose admiration goes to Maurice Utrillo and Chaïm Soutine 5 , received advice in 1940 from Émile Othon Friesz and Yves Brayer at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière , then entered the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in 1942 . He participated in Parisian Salons from his youth and was not yet twenty when the Katia Granoff 6 gallery , then the Cardo 7 gallery , organized his first personal exhibitions.
“The winner is under thirty years old” observes Claude Roger-Marx , who does not fail to note “the atmosphere of disguise which is dear to him” as well as “the muted truculence which he gives to the opaque backgrounds where sing with distinction cold grays, greens, carmines and saffron” 8 when in 1951 the prize from the Society of Collectors and Art Lovers was awarded to Gabriel Dauchot.
Waldemar George observed in the 1950s that if "his early works were treated in a realistic style which sometimes borders on populism, the painter tries to free himself from it and reacts against a literary art" His last paintings from then, “portraits, landscapes, compositions and still lifes, stand out through the intense life of the material” 9 . Nearly forty years later, however, in 1989, Gérald Schurr continued to retain in Dauchot's work "a sad countryside populated by pitiful beings, halfway between drama and derision, a truculent universe saved from tragedy by a grating humor » 10 . See less