Museum Quality French Modern Artist Louis Marchand Des Roux Oil Painting Signed. Oil on Canvas by Louis Marchand des Raux; titled "La Paysan"; 32 x 23 2/4; 33 x 24 3/4; signed verso
Louis Marchand des Raux is a French painter and lithographer born December 12, 1902 in Fondettes (locality Les Raux) in Indre-et-Loire, died January 13, 2000. Biography Louis Marchand, who added the name of the locality Les Raux where he was born to his signature, initially had the dual vocation of gardener and painter. His first vocation was with the owner of the Château de Beaujardin in Tours, Charles Liéron, who introduced him to painting, then with Julia Daudet for the park of the Château de Pray located in Chargé, near Amboise1, who offered him the opportunity to rub shoulders with an artistic and learned society 2. When Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild, wife of Maurice Ephrussi, donated her villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat to the Institut de France, the members of the Académie des beaux-arts appealed to Louis Marchand des Raux, which they noticed in Julia Daudet, for the development and maintenance of the gardens which magnificently overlook the Mediterranean2. Louis Marchand des Raux then fully exercises his dual vocation, painting for the galleries of the Côte d'Azur and Paris where he will rub shoulders with Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau and where the major collections of the United States will be interested in his work2. Since 2018, a street in the town of Fondettes bears the artist's name1. Personal exhibitions Galerie Séraphine, Paris, 1969. Espace Neptune, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, June 2007. Critical reception “The humorous face of expressionism: curious rustic scenes or historical episodes drawn in a heavily kneaded dough. "- Gérald Schurr3" He created a very personal profession, not unrelated to the Soutine technique. He deals with portraits, allegories and peasant scenes, which he does not see without humor. »- Bénézit4 dictionary Public collections Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, interior of the chapel of Saint-Hospice France Image museum, Épinal. Chéret Museum, Nice. Chapel of Saint-Hospice, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, The life and miracles of Saint Hospice, thirty paintings5. United States Thirty-one museums and public or private foundations hold works by Louis Marchand des Raux6. These include: Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster (Pennsylvania), The Sermon, oil on canvas7. Hahn Gallery Collection, Philadelphia 8. Bertha VB Lederer Gallery, Rochester (New York), Saint Martin in the forests of Touraine, oil on canvas 9. Israel Haifa Art Museum. Students James Coignard 10.

33 x 24.75 in