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

Exquisite female portrait by the French painter Roland Oudot, done in oil on canvas and framed in a delicious white frame.
In the foreground, the painting features an elegantly dressed woman holding her hat. In the background a simple landscape is drawn with a sky illuminated by the evening light and a plant shadow behind the woman. Thanks to the dispersed drawing and the thick lines of the brush strokes, 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 female's gaze wanders to the left, as if observing something outside the canvas that escapes our knowledge. The muted colors such as beige and blue contrast with the dark reddish and especially with the large 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, theater sets and book illustrations. He committed suicide in Paris on July 17, 1981. Oudot studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (where he would later become a professor) between 1912 and 1915, in the workshop of Eugène Edouard Morand. In 1915 he became Léon Bakst's assistant for the Ballets Russes (until Bakst's death in 1923), and it was he who introduced him to the painting of Paul Cézanne, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, the first two of whom would exercise a lasting influence on him. At the same time, between 1919 and 1920, he worked as a furniture and fabric designer for Louis Süe and André Mare. Influenced by the modernism of painting at the beginning of the 20th century, particularly by the Fauves and the Cubists, his work also evolved by taking elements from 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, made up of seven other artists: Maurice Brianchon, Raymond Legueult, Christian Caillard, Jules Cavaillès, Roger Limouse, André Planson and Kostia Terechkovitch. For René Huyghe, they were "those who do not want to give up pleasure, that gift despised by the 20th century, through theme 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 responded: "We let ourselves be dragged because they had promised us that we would not see any political figures, that we would only see artists, and that they would see the imprisoned artists again. Yes, we should not have done it, because there were people suffering. , but it must be said that it was 1941 and we were completely unaware of the existence of the camps.
Roland Oudot, "whose balance and serenity were the envy of all his friends", took his own life a few days before his 84th birthday, on the morning of July 17, 1981. Buried in Honfleur, in the Vasouy cemetery, his memory is preserved in an engraving by Maxime Juan, in the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, which shows him painting in his studio. He is considered one of the most talented painters of poetic realism and his works are exhibited in large institutions such as the Pompidou Center.
Dimensions:
96 x 82 x 5.5cm.
72 x 58 cm.
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