Detroy Léon Crozant School 20th Century Mountain Landscape Oil On Canvas Signed Certificate

DETROY Léon ( 1857 / 1955 )
Landscape of mountain.
Oil on canvas signed lower right.
18,30 x 24,01 in
Certificate of authenticity.
Leon DETROY, 1859 / 1955 ( French )
Painter rooted in the post-impressionist movement, Lèon Detroy entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1879, where he learned the basics of art with Jean-Paul Laurens. He met Claude Monet, then it was while reading a novel by George Sand that he decided to devote his painting to the description of landscapes in the Crozant school. 
He has always favored his artistic itineraries from Northern Europe to Northern Africa through Italy, and in France, from the South to Brittany and the Creuse Valley. The latter was so fascinating that he devoted several paintings of spectacular landscapes to it from 1881 onwards. Characterized by a tempered divisionism and sharp colors, Léon Detroy's painting is one of those that announces Fauvism. 
He was very appreciated by critics but also by his fellow painters and friends, Vuillard, Bonnard, Friez and Anquetin.
He knew how to move away from impressionism to elaborate a personal aesthetic, subtle balance of audacity and measure.
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