"Lying Nude By Pierre Deval 1897-1993"
Very pretty oil on canvas measuring 25cm x 33cm plus frame 58cm x 50cm Nu Allangui signed lower right DEVAL Pierre Jean Charles Deval is a French painter born August 20, 1897 in Lyon and died June 27, 1993 in La Valette-du-Var . Pierre Deval is the third child of a family of silk workers from Lyon located at 45, avenue Nouailles in Lyon, Nicknamed the Maitre d'Orvès, self-taught and outside the Parisian commercial circuits, he frequents a month during Fernand Cormon's workshop and is noticed by Léonce Bénédite at the 1921 Salon, where the State acquired its Ariane. He received the Abd-el-Tif prize in 1922 and exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1924. Friend of Albert Marquet and Jean Launois, he worked with them in Morocco. He was the owner of the Orvès estate, whose park is today labeled a remarkable Deval garden exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1920, at the Salon des Tuileries (1928 and 1929) and at the Salon des Independents (1928) as well as at the Salon des Tuileries (1928 and 1929). Independent French Art (1929), at the Salon d'Automne in Lyon (1919-1925) and at the Salon du Sud-Est (Lyon) from 1926. We also owe him the illustrations for L'École des indifférents de Jean Giraudoux works in various Museums National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers. Zabana National Museum of Oran. Tokyo National Museum. British Museum in London. Toulon Art Museum. Lyon Museum of Fine Arts. International Coast free shipping worldwide