The Hero's Daughter
WatercolorSigned, dated 1917 and dedicated to Francis Carco top left
Framed dimensions: 35 x 41 cm
Charles Picart le Doux attended the Académie Julian and then returned to the Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1902. The painter first lived in Montmartre and frequented the Lapin Agile where he met Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo (two years his junior) and formed lasting friendships with René Arcos, Charles Vildrac, Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains with whom he supported the Abbaye group in Créteil, but also with Pierre Mac Orlan, Luc Durtain, Francis Carco.