Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1910s.
He had solo shows at the mythical Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1919. Bernheim-Jeune had started by presenting works by Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Paul Cézanne, Henri-Edmond Cross, Kees van Dongen, Henri Matisse, Le Douanier Rousseau, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Amedeo Modigliani and Maurice Utrillo.
From 1906 to 1925, art critic Félix Fénéon was the director of the gallery and was instrumental in bringing in the art of Georges Seurat. The gallery became one of the centres of the artistic avant-garde.
Durey also showed his work at the Galerie Eugene Druet in 1924 , where Bonnard and Rouault exhibited in the same year. His work was collected by Jonas Netter, the great connoisseur of Montparnasse Art.
Durey was a member of the Salon des Indépendants, and had a major retrospective in Stockholm in 1948.
Two works by René Durey are in the collections of the Pompidou Centre/National Museum of Modern Art in Paris. In the UK, a work by the artist is in the Wilson Gallery and Museum in Cheltenham. His work was shown in the 1983 exhibition: "The Aura Of Neo-Impressionism" at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in the US.
Measuring 65 x 54 cm, our oil on canvas is signed at the lower left. The overall framed size in frame by Paris master framers Delf is 81 x 70 cm
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1910s.
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Fauve Country Lane, Ca 1919 French Avant Garde Landscape Colorist Painting Rene Durey Oil on Canvas
