Roland Oudot, Female Portrait, 1930s, Oil on Canvas, Framed

Exquisite female portrait of the French painter Roland Oudot, made of oil on canvas and framed in a delicious white frame.
In the painting there is an elegantly dressed woman who holds her hat. In the background a simple landscape is drawn with a sky illuminated by the light of sunset and a vegetable shadow behind the woman. Thanks to the scattered drawing and the thick stroke of the brushstrokes, we can see in this work a clear influence of the post -impressionist forms of great painters such as Paul Cézanne, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. The look of the female is lost to the left, as observing something out of the canvas that escapes our knowledge. The colors off such as beige and blue contrast with the dark reddish and especially with the great black strokes that create a feeling of sadness and melancholy transmitted by the work.
It is signed by the author in the lower left corner.
About Roland Oudot
Roland Oudot, born in Paris on July 29, 1897, was a French painter and lithographer. He also made engravings, murals, theatrical decorations and book illustrations. He committed suicide in Paris on July 17, 1981. Oudot studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoraratifs (of which he would later be a professor) between 1912 and 1915, in the workshop of Eugène Edouard Morand. In 1915 he became assistant to Léon Bakst for the Russian ballets (until the death of Bakst in 1923), and it was he who made him known the painting of Paul Cézanne, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, the first two of whom would exercise a Durable influence on him. At the same time, between 1919 and 1920, he worked as a furniture and fabrics designer for Louis Süe and André Mare. Influenced by the modernism of the painting of the early twentieth century, particularly by Fauvistas and the Cubists, his work evolved also taking elements of the French landscape tradition, marked by the figure of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.
Roland Oudot was part of the group of painters of poetic reality, composed of seven other artists: Maurice Brianchon, Raymond Legueult, Christian Caillard, Jules Cavaillès, Roger Limous, André Planson and Kostia Terechkovitch. For René Huyghe, they were “those who do not want to give up pleasure, that gift despised by the twentieth century, through the subject and appearances, as in the past, but also through the liberation of colors, that gift of the present ” In 1941, Roland Oudot participated in a trip to Germany by artists such as Charles Despiau, Louis-Aimé Lejeune, Paul Landowski, Paul Belmondo, Kees Van Dongen, Maurice de Vlaminck, André Derain, Othon Friesz and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. To the harsh criticism he received, he replied: “We were dragging because they had promised us that we would not see any political character, that we would only see artists, and that they would see the artists imprisoned again. Yes, we should not do it, because there were people suffering , but it must be said that it was 1941 and we completely ignored the existence of the fields. “
Roland Oudot, “whose balance and serenity were the envy of all his friends,” he took his life a few days before turning 84, on the morning of July 17, 1981. buried in Honfleur, in the Cemetery of Vasouy, his Memory is preserved in an engraving of Maxime Juan, in the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, which shows him painting in his study. It is considered one of the most talented painters of poetic realism and its works are exposed in large institutions such as the Pompidou Center.
Dimensions:
96 x 82 x 5.5 cm.
72 x 58 cm.
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