Pierre Deval Young Woman With The Guitar XXeme 1897 1993

Pierre Deval (1897 1993) Young woman with guitar oil on canvas 65cm on 54cm out of frame with pretty Montparnasse frame signed lower left
Pierre Jean Charles Deval, is a French figurative painter born August 20, 1897 in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon . He is the third child of a family of silk, bourgeoisly installed at 45 Avenue Nouailles, at the corner of the Place de la Redemption. Pierre Deval devoted his long life to painting. He died in La Valette-du-Var (Var) in 1993. Biography Coming from a family of silky Lyonnais, Pierre Deval, known as "the Master of Orves", self-taught and out of the Parisian trade circuits, frequented for a month the workshop of Cormon and is noticed by Léonce Bénédite at the 1921 show (acquisition of the French State: Ariane). He received the Abd-el-Tif Prize in 1922, exhibited at the Biennial of Venice in 1924, Ami de Marquet and Jean Launois, he worked with them in Morocco. He owned the Domaine d'Orvès, whose park is now labeled remarkable garden1. This estate located in La Valette-du-Var is composed of a bastide, a chapel and a botanical park fed by a source that feeds the many basins of the property. Pierre Deval meets Michel Estades in 1986, who becomes his friend, ultimate and unique merchant and expert. Michel Estades collaborated, among other things, on the organization of the exhibition "Tribute to Pierre Deval" in 1988 in La Seyne-sur-Mer under the aegis of the General Council of Var and the Town Hall of La Seyne-sur-Mer. And later, at the exhibition "Mediterranean Painters", at the Museum of Hyères (Var) in November 1992. Museums [edit | edit the code] National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers National Museum Zabana of Oran (ex Demaeght) National Museum of Tokyo British Museum of London Museum of Art of Toulon Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon