Street Of Cargèse Corsica By Pierre Daura

Large oil on canvas signed lower left Daura, depicting a busy street in Cargèse in southern Corsica overlooking the sea with a view of the bell tower of the church of the so-called Latin Assumption. This painting has been cleaned and is in very good condition, its colors well preserved. Two pieces of reinforcement on the back of the painting that do not affect the quality of the work. Baguette frame in gilded wood with leaf. Dimensions of the painting 60x73cm Total dimensions, with frame, 70.5x84 cm Pierre Daura is a painter born in Menorca, in the Balearic Islands, in 1896. Following his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona during which he he pupil of Pablo Picasso's father, he lived for a few years in Paris (1914-1917), where he settled again in 1920. Discovering the Lot valley by chance, with which he fell in love, he bought a former hospice in Saint- Cirq Lapopie. Between 1918 and 1929, he participated in collective exhibitions in Barcelona but also in the Parisian Salons with other Catalan artists. Very active in the artistic movement "Circle and square" which opposes constructivism to surrealism, and which notably includes Kandinsky, he then delivers a very abstract painting. He thus participated in the group's major exhibition in 1929 at the Galerie Dalmau in Barcelona, and in April 1930 in Paris at the Cercle et Carré exhibition at the gallery 23. It was Daura who designed the group's logo which, in the 1930s brings together Arp, Clausen, Gorin, Kandinsky, Leger, Mondrian, Pevsner, Russolo, Stella and Vantongerloo and will be a milestone in the history of art. In 1934 he left for the United States to meet the parents of his wife, an art student from Virginia. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he joined the Republicans, but quickly returned to France, victim of an injury. He will refuse to return to Spain. From 1939 he moved to the United States and obtained his naturalization in 1943. At the end of the Second World War, he spent these summers in his house in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, a house which was offered by his daughter to the Midi-Pyrénnées region to serve as a place of residence for young artists. He died in Virginia, at Rockbridges Bath, in 1976, leaving a work of rich diversity, essentially figurative: portraits, landscapes, still lifes, watercolors.