Georges Dayez (1907-1991), La Cadière d'Azur, Oil On Canvas, Circa 1960, Framed

Georges DAYEZ is a French painter born in Paris in 1907, also an engraver and lithographer. He will attend the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse then the Académie Julian in St Germain des Prés. In 1931 he discovered the Cote d'Azur and the following year participated in the association of revolutionary artists (AEAR) with Helion and Herbin among others. After exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne in the 1920s, he exhibited at the salon of independents from the 1930s. It belongs to the New School of Paris and it will exhibit alongside many non-figurative painters of the same period. Returning to Paris in 1941, he married and became friends with André Lhote. After the liberation he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne alongside painters like Picasso, Matisse, Léger and Braque. His paintings were acquired by the Galerie de France but also by the Museum of Modern Art which had just opened in 1945 in Paris. In 1954 he exhibited with M. Estève and C. Lapicques, in the Galerie Villand. From 1958 to 1968 he was part of the jury for the Prix de Rome alongside Villon, Lhote and Foujita. Numerous trips will continue to nourish his painting which he will exhibit in France and abroad. Numerous retrospectives are devoted to it.