Guy David (1911-1980) "the Evening Meal" 1945

Guy David (1911-1980) "le repas du soir" 1945 - oil on canvas signed lower right and dated 1945 on the back Guy David was born on December 20, 1911 in Poitiers and died on August 25, 1980 (at 68 years old) in Nantes. Guy-David has always drawn, from the age of 17 he made sketches of hearings at the court of Poitiers, from his Poitevin heritage he falls in love with Romanesque art, figurative painter then the cubist discipline inhabits him and he receives the encouragement of the painters of the Section Or and he becomes friends with Fernand Léger, Jean Metzinger, Jacques Villon and later with Roger Bissière, Jean Bazaine, Edouard Pignon, Gabriel Robin, André Masson. During an exhibition at the Galerie la Boétie in Paris he was noticed by Picasso for his painting "Les Monkfish" Secretary General and co-founder of the Amis de l'Art in Nantes he was the artistic correspondent for the newspapers Art & Lettres, Presse Océan and the Parisian magazines Le Peintre, Prisme des Arts and L'œil. He was appointed an expert in 19th and 20th century modern paintings by the Nantes Commercial Court. He is present in many museums in France and abroad he will exhibit in Nantes, Paris, La Baule-Escoublac, Bordeaux, La Bourboule, Casablanca, Rabat, New York, Brussels, Cardiff, Munich, Bonn etc.