Jacques Duthoo Abstraction In Blue Circa 1950 Oil On Canvas

Abstraction
by Jacques Duthoo (1910 Tours - 1960 Paris)
Oil on canvas, signed bottom right
35 x 48 cm
43,8 x 57 cm with the frame
Jacques Duthoo was a painter, self-taught, passionate and attentive. Among his friends were other painters : Bauchant, Voyet, Maxime. The company of Georges Rouault led him to try his hand at painting and he exhibited in 1945 at the 57th Salon des Indépendants where he was noticed by Frank Elgar (Roger Lesbat) who encouraged him. 
Subsequently, the Galerie Denise René presented his work, and Duthoo exhibited at the Salon des Surindépendants and then at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. It was in 1951 that Colette Allendy offered Jacques Duthoo his first solo exhibition. Within this movement called Abstraction, Duthoo's work remains unclassifiable and marked by the seal of his personality.
Jacques Duthoo died on March 13, 1960.
Source: Jacques Duthoo, Une aventure intérieure, catalogue of the exhibition organized by the City of Tours at the Château de Tours, 2014, Sutton editions in Saint-Avertin.