Charles Picart Le Doux (1881-1959) "nude On A Chair" Oil On Cardboard Signed Lower Right

Charles Alexandre René Picart Le Doux, born on July 12, 1881 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and died on September 11, 1959 in the 14th arrondissement of the same city1, was a French painter and engraver, as well as a poet and writer2.

He descended from an old Parisian family whose genealogy can be traced back to 1744, with the birth on February 29 of Louis Picart Ledoux, the first commander of the Paris fire brigade3.

The painter's grandfather, Louis, Charles, Auguste, was a glass painter and executed, among other works, the great south rose window of Notre Dame de Paris. A friend of Corot, Vernet and Th. Gauthier, he was awarded the gold medal by Queen Amélie, and it was through him that young Charles was introduced to design.
Biography

Charles Picart le Doux studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly before embarking on a definitive artistic career, first at the Académie Julian and then at the Beaux-Arts de Paris until 1902. The painter first lived in Montmartre, frequenting the Lapin agile, where he met Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo (two years his junior), and forged close friendships with René Arcos, Charles Vildrac, Georges Duhamel and Jules Romains, with whom he supported the Abbaye group in Créteil, as well as with Pierre Mac Orlan, Luc Durtain and Francis Carco.