"Composition, Jean Deyrolle"
Breton by origin, Jean Deyrolle met Nicolas de Staël who lived with his cousin, Jeannine Guillou until his death in 1946. They traveled together in North Africa and stayed in the south of France. Jean Deyrolle met Lanskoy in Paris, at Jeannine and Nicolas de Staël's, and broke away from figuration. In 1944, he exhibited as an abstract painter at the Salon d'Automne. He exhibited at Denise René's, with his friends Dewasne, Hartung, Schneider and Marie Raymond, later joined by Gilioli, Poliakoff and Vasarely. He received the Kandinsky Prize. Composition in tempera on paper mounted on canvas, signed with the monogram at the bottom right.