Elegant At La Calèche By Gabriel Dauchot

Oil on canvas by Gabriel Dauchot depicting elegant women in a carriage, painting signed lower left, format with the frame 37x32cm. Gabriel Dauchot was born on May 10, 1927 in Livry-Gargan. Supported by the encouragement of his father, an architect, and painting from the age of fourteen. ,Gabriel Dauchot, whose admiration goes to Maurice Utrillo and Chaïm Soutine, received advice from Émile Othon Friesz and Yves Brayer at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1940, then entered the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in 1942. He participated in the Parisian Salons from his youth and was not yet twenty years old when the Katia Granoff gallery[6], then the Cardo gallery, organized his first solo exhibitions. "The winner is under thirty years old" observes Claude Roger-Marx, who does not fail to note "the atmosphere of disguise which is dear to him" as well as "the muted truculence which he gives to the opaque backgrounds where cold grays, greens, carmines and saffrons sing with distinction"[8] when in 1951 the prize of the Society of Art Collectors and Amateurs was awarded to Gabriel Dauchot. Waldemar George observed in the 1950s that if "his early works were treated in a realistic style which sometimes borders on populism, the painter tries to free himself from it and reacts against a literary art". His last paintings of then, "portraits, landscapes, compositions and still lifes, are imposed by the intense life of the material"[9]. Nearly forty years later, however, in 1989, Gérald Schurr continued to retain in Dauchot's work "a sad countryside populated by pitiful beings, halfway between drama and derision, a colorful universe saved from tragedy by a scathing humor." His apartment-studio was located at no. 5 Place Pigalle in Paris.