Robert Deletang (1874 – 1951) “fandango In The Basque Country” Canvas/cardboard 22x37 Cm -1936

Robert – Adrien Deletang (1874 – 1951) “Fandango in the Basque Country” Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard signed lower right Dated 1936 L: 37 cm x H: 22.5 cm Biography of Robert-Adrien Deletang: Robert Adrien Deletang born in Preuilly-sur-Claise in 1874 and died in Châtellerault in 1951 is a French painter and illustrator. Portraitist and landscaper, his brush was attracted by Basque and Spanish scenes and landscapes. Excerpt from “A Century of Painting in the Basque Country” by Alexandre Hurel and Michel de Jaureguiberry (page 144): “The strength of Deletang: Deletang leaves a considerable body of work, a unique testimony to an incredible pictorial strength with multiple facets. Capable of working in a classical manner, he was also open to free chromatic interpretations, instilling some Cubist or Fauvist acquisitions, then drawing renewed strength from Expressionism, without ever abandoning a traditional formal approach; his works draw from it an exceptional evocative power. » The Basque Museum of Bayonne, the museums of Pau, Rouen, Lyon, Nantes, and Reims have a work by Deletang.