Léon Detroy (1859-1955) Foxglove Garden C.1920. School Of Crozant, Gargilesse, Guillaumin

New oil on canvas by Léon Detroy depicting a garden with foxgloves around 1917/1925, signed lower left. Format of the canvas alone without frame 73x54cm and 85x66cm including frame. This is indeed a new beautiful and large canvas by Léon Detroy who paints here an extract from a garden, probably even from his garden in Gargilesse, he lingers more precisely on foxgloves that he creates in a very modern way, with his touch typical of this period, in large flat areas, as well as playing with the support and voluntarily leaving reserves which gives even more strength to this work. His palette is obviously very typical with a superb cameo of greens, then pinks, fuchsias, yellows and blues. Emblematic work of this period. Great painter among the greats, I only briefly present Léon Detroy, leader with Guillaumin, of the now famous Crozant School. With Guillaumin, these 2 painters will share the honors, the students, the friends but also the sites of the Creuse valley, Detroy being more attached to Gargilesse and its surroundings, when Guillaumin was more for Crozant and its surroundings. So first settled in Crozant, then in Fresselines and Gargilesse, he will become an essential figure of the Creuse valley. He had studied in Paris alongside Lebourg, like the latter, he will leave the school benches quite quickly, too academic for him. He will meet the Creuse around 1888, after having read George Sand, and there he will meet Maurice Rollinat, Monet and will become the friend of Alluaud with whom he will share in particular trips to Italy or to Agay where he will meet other great painters of the time, such as Valtat, Van den Eckout, Anquetin etc ... who will be faithful to him all their life. He was recognized by many artists and critics of the time, Salmon, Wilette... His techniques evolved throughout his life; he adopted the touch, then became almost Fauve with a broader touch, then mixed small touches and large flat areas like here, until he stylized his motifs, whether in Creuse, on the Côte d'Azur, in Collioure, in Italy, in the Maghreb, in Holland, Belgium, Brittany etc... he was therefore a great traveler, but it was the shores of the Mediterranean that attracted the artist the most. At the end of his career, settled in Gargillesse, he would only do still lifes, but they would have had a very important part in his career, some would be real masterpieces, as much as his landscapes; this one proves it to us once again. And even at the end of his life, the charm would continue to work as his painting remained TRUE and SINCERE! Finally recognized as one of the greatest painters of the Creuse Valley, if not the greatest, his popularity continues to grow, even more so since the recent exhibition and the excellent work of Pascal Goes published by Les Ardents éditeurs: "Léon Detroy, a post-impressionist, from the lights of the south to the Creuse Valley" This canvas is therefore in perfect original condition, delivered in its period frame in rather good condition too. Work guaranteed authentic