Attributed To Charles Dehoy (brussels 1872-1940) - Nude

Attributed to Charles Dehoy (brussels 1872-1940) - Nude
Dimensions without frame: 58 cm W x 69 cm H
Dimensions with frame: 67 cm W x 79 cm H

Charles Dehoy, self-taught painter, having his home and studio at 13, rue Veydt in Brussels, devotes himself to the representation of landscapes, which he exhibits in the salons. First influenced by impressionism and luminism, he soon showed himself sensitive to the works of the Fauves, in the same way as certain contemporaries, such as Rik Wouters. It was notably through Ferdinand Schirren, whom he met on his return from a trip to the South of France, that he modified his practice. He then participated in this movement that we will later qualify as Brabant fauvism. He adopts a method introducing large flat areas of color into his compositions, which best reproduce the play of light. The outbreak of the First World War, however, will interrupt the rise of this artistic movement. A retrospective was dedicated to him in 1941, at the Apollo gallery.