Pierre Deval "reclining Nude" Oil On Canvas 50x61

Pierre DEVAL (1897-1993)
Oil on canvas 50x61 cm "Reclining Nude" circa 1930
Signed lower left
Born in Lyon, Pierre Deval obtained the Villa Abd el Tif scholarship in Algiers in 1922, where he formed a deep bond with Marquet.
On his return to Paris, he frequented the Dadas circle with Breton, Tzara, Aragon and exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
Then, he settled in the south of France, in the D'Orves estate near Toulon, where he rediscovered the southern light that had so seduced him in Algeria.
An admirer of Renoir, Deval divided his time between luminous landscapes and women, whom he celebrated with great delicacy, mainly in pastel from the 1950s onwards; oils were rarer.
This reclining nude, typical of the 20s/30s by Modigliani, Kisling, Bonnard ... in a very personal style inherited from Renoir, on the border between Post-Impressionism and the School of Paris.
Bibliography: Benezit, Dictionnaire Edouard Joseph, "Deval, le Maître d'Orves" by Michèle Gorenc, Schurr, ...
Unframed