Still life by Louis Dussour

"Le Retour de l'lle d'Elbe" still life oil on canvas by Louis Dussour dated 1927.

Louis Dussour was born in 1905, in Riom, dying there in 1986. He was a painter of figure compositions, religious subjects, landscapes, still lifes and murals. He studied at the regional art academy in Clermont-Ferrand and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in the studios of Ernest Laurent and Paul Baudoin. In 1943, he was appointed head of the Clermont-Ferrand Academy and in 1949 of the school of decorative art in Nice.  Dussour’s frescoes and mural paintings are primarily figure compositions whose subjects and handling derive from the religious and classical paintings of the Quattrocento. His easel paintings show the same interests, but are treated in a freer and more personal style, both in the landscapes and in the Post-Impressionist, sometimes almost Cubist, still lifes. Work by Dussour was included in the collective exhibitions such as the 1937 Paris Exposition Internationale where he won a Gold Medal. He exhibited at the Société des Artistes Français, of which he was elected a Member, as well as the Salon d’Automne, the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Artistes Indépendants.

Biblio: Bénézit: Dictionnaire des Peintres.

Dimensions: 530 x 720