Léon Detroy Chemin En Creuse De Crozant School (madeline Guillaumin Alluaud ...)

Léon Detroy (1859-1955) famous French Post-Impressionist painter, member of the School of Crozant. superb and large pastel hollow path signed lower right perfect condition I constantly research and buy all works of the Crozant school Léon Detroy was born in Chinon in 1859, to a father who was a doctor and a mother from the Gilles de la Tourette family, thus predisposing him to a life free from financial needs. He was introduced to painting by his maternal uncle, a collector in Loudun (Vienne) who knew Corot and Courbet. Around 1880 Léon Detroy decides to enter the Beaux-Arts in Paris; but, very quickly, the academicism of his master, Jean-Paul Laurens, tires him and he leaves the studio. He was then eager for the outdoors and wanted to paint on the motif as the impressionists now did. In 1887, he discovered the Walks around a village of George Sand. It was a revelation for him: a few days later, he arrived in Creuse, even before Armand Guillaumin. He buys a house in Gargilesse and befriends Maurice Rollinat where he meets Claude Monet. Then, he brought his friends Henri Charrier and Ernest Hareux to La Pouge, to Rollinat. From then on, the artist paces the sunken paths and the banks of the river to fix the motif in different ways, whether impressionist, pointillist or fauvist. Seeking neither fortune nor recognition, Léon Detroy stayed away from Paris and its Salons, devoting his time to his painting and to his friends from the now School of Crozant. He died in 1955 in the Sarthe.