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Lot 477
476*AR Dyf (Marcel Dreyfus, 1899-1985) Mort du Torero dans les Arènes, oil on board, showing a bullfighter lying on a make-shift bed, surrounded by figures, in a stone arched interior, signed lower right, 46.5 x 38cm (18.25 x 15ins), framed, together with a catalogue of the artist’s work by Michel Gay, with a loosely inserted hand-written card from the artist’s widow ‘here is the Brochure showing your painting Cordially Claudine Dyf 10.02.2014’ Marcel Dyf lived in Paris, but spent his childhood holidays in Normandy at Ault, Deauville and Trouville. He moved to Arles in 1922 where he kept a studio until the early years of the Second World War. He also took up residence from 1955 onwards in the old studio of the painter Maximilien Luce on the Avenue du Maine, Paris. After the war, he divided his time between Paris and Saint Paul-de-Vence. In 1955, the eminent London gallery Frost & Reed purchased a selection of his works, marking the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between the gallery and artist. Following his marriage to Claudine Godat, 36 years his junior, in 1956 the artist and his young wife made many visits to Brittany, and particularly the Golfe du Morbihan, where Dyf found inspiration for his landscape paintings. (1) £500-800
477* Fried (Pal (1893-1976)) ‘Leslie’, oil on canvas, titled to verso, signed lower left, 76.5 x 61.5cm (30 x 24.25ins), framed (1)
£400-600
478* Fried (Pal (1893-1976)) Ballerina in a pink dress, oil on canvas, signed lower right, small areas of paint flaking, 81 x 60.5cm (32 x 23.75ins), framed (1)
£200-300
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