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Pierre Deval (French, 1897-1993)
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Biography |
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1897 |
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Born August 20th in Lyon |
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1918 |
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Studied art in Paris under Émile-René Ménard and Lucien Simon and had his first show of drawings and portraits of young women at the Lyon Salon |
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1921 |
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Befriended Tristan Tzara, writers Andre Breton and Louis Aragon, and French surrealist poet Jacques Rigaut, who introduced him into the circle of the Dadaism |
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1921 |
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At the 1921 Salon d’Automne in Paris, which included works by Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, Roussel and Cross, Deval sold his first painting, Ariane, which was purchased by the French Government for the Musee Luxembourg, and hung in the Jeu de Pomme. |
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1921 - 1922 |
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Deval served as editor of an artistic review in Lyon between February 1921 and June 1922 |
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1922 |
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In the autumn of 1922, the success of his painting Ariane earned him a two year fellowship at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers, a residence for painters; he was 25 years old. |
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1924 |
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He was selected to participate in the Venice Biennale with a group of French artists, including Albert Marquet, Pierre Bonnard, and Maurice Denis. His works of this period featured exotic scenes and cityscapes from Algeria and odalisques. |
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1926 |
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He painted five watercolors of modern Parisian life for a book, L’ecole des indifferents,’ by Jean Giraudoux; he also worked as an illustrator for several journals and showed his work in Paris galleries. |
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1933 |
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He took part in a show in Marseille on Provence, where he continued to show for many years thereafter |
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1920 - 1935 |
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Domaine d'Orvès, Deval’s house at La Valette-du-Var, was a gathering place for French artists who worked along the Cote d’Azur and in Provence. At this residence, he kept the company of Henri Bosco, and the painters Raoul Dufy, Marquet, Jean Puy and Willy Eisenschitz. During his time at La Valette-du-Var, Deval solidified his lasting painterly reputation with realistic scenes of Marseille and Toulon, and sensitive paintings of women, children and families. |
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1993 |
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Died at his home. |
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