Fishermen in Saint-Tropez
Oil on canvas depicting fishermen near by the house, beside the Mediterranean Sea. The very energic gesture he used for the rendering of the leaves of the trees evokes the vitality of the Mediterranean climate. The tight framing of the scene participates in focusing our attention on the characters.
Circa: 1931-32
Signed bottom right: “A. Dunoyer de Segonzac”
Dimensions :
The painting: Height: 21 ¼ in. Width: 25 ¾ in.
Framed: Height: 26 ¾ in. Width: 31 in.
Remarks:
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (born in 1884, in Boussy-Saint-Antoine and died in 1974, in Paris) is a polyvalent artist with complementary talents: drawing, painting, engraving and watercolor. Having decided not to be part of the great esthetical movements at the beginning of the 20th century, Dunoyer de Segonzac elaborated his work about his personal concerns, clear and lucid of any convention. “My revolution was never to participate to any revolutionary movement”, he said. This hasn’t prevented him from building relationships with the important names, fixed for posterity, as Paul Signac, Max Jacob, Paul Poiret, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau or also André Derain. However, his style is his own, made by a chromatic sobriety and a graphic rigor. Moreover, his palette is limited to sober shades, his stroke is precise, his forms are concise and his composition is organized. Not limited by a unique technique, he went as far as learning the pen, and considers the watercolor medium as strong as paint. Multi-faced artist, he is nowadays exhibited in a few museums, among which: the Musée National d’art Moderne in Paris, the Musée Lambinet in Versailles, the Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain of Strasbourg, the Musée d’art Moderne in Troyes, the Musée de l’Annonciade in Saint-Tropez, and in Boussy-Saint-Antoine where a museum is dedicated to him.
Bibliography :
Michel CHARZAT, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, La force de la nature, l’amour de la vie, Éditions Gourcuff Gradenigo, Montreuil, 2021, p.137.
