Venice San Giorgio Maggiore Oil On Canvas By Ramon Dilley 1932 2013

Venice San Giorgio Maggiore Oil On Canvas By Ramon Dilley 1932 - 2013 amon Dilley is a French painter, engraver, lithographer and illustrator of Spanish origin who was born in Madrid in 1932. Dilley is a pseudonym and the exact marital status of the painter is Gomez Ramon y Romero. He comes from a family that took pride in having for ancestors the conquistadors Pizarro and Trujillo. The Spanish Civil War forced Gomez Ramon y Romero's parents into exile and they settled in Royan in 1936. The young boy was impressed by the elegant atmosphere of the seaside resort and by the wealthy holidaymakers who frequented it. It is the meeting with the sculptor Paul Belmondo that will decide the fate of Gomez Ramon y Romero. Paul Belmondo appreciates his artistic qualities and uses his influence to get him into the Ecole du Louvre. However, it is as an autodidact that the young man approaches the world of painting. After a first contact with Great Painting, where he never stopped copying the works of the masters in museums, he left to travel around the world for two years, from 1965 to 1967. During these two years of wandering, he lived on product of his painting. Back in Paris, he followed the advice of the auctioneer Maurice Rheims and took the pseudonym Ramon Dilley. From his first exhibitions, Dilley found his style. The nostalgia for exile and periods of bygone happiness underlie its creation, where we find elegant thirties and legendary seaside resorts. Deauville, Trouville, Cannes, Nice are his favorite subjects, and he peoples these fashionable beaches with frivolous and carefree characters. This Scott Fitzgerald of painting immediately meets with success. Very extroverted, Ramon Dilley seeks customers from the jet set and the world of cinema. The world of letters also welcomed him, and the painter became friends with Mauriac, as well as with Giono and Marcel Achard. In 1968, he met Catherine Deneuve, who introduced him to Claude Chabrol. The director will become one of his passionate collectors. But there are also among the amateurs of Dilley's work the Shah of Iran, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Valery Giscard d'Estaing. If Dilley's painting is immediately accessible and appeals to fashionable people, to the "people" we would say now, it is far from superficial. The man is flamboyant and knows how to seduce. But the complex emotions conveyed by his evocations of lost worlds go straight to the heart. Behind the beautiful images can be read, of course, sadness and nostalgia, but also desire and tenderness, as well as the desire to control one's destiny.