Leon Dufour : The Exotic Concert

This painting was done on a panel of "menuiserite" visibly old and therefore responsible for asbestos! By cons, its absortion properties earned him the interest of painters and had a great support. Here, probably insular scene (Antilles?), With two musicians playing banjo and trumpet, heard by a rider stopped, while conversing different characters ... It is the work of Leon Dufour, who worked in the south of the Landes in the second third of the twentieth century. He had the reputation of being "original", euphemism in the mouths of local! Painting 40 x 48 cm, frame 53 x 64 cm. Treated in an expressionist vein, it is kept in an old frame in varnished wood. More pictures and many other items in our shops of Pau and Biarritz and on our website: galerielhoste.com.