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GUY PÈNE DU BOIS Portrait of a Cavalier.
Oil on wood panel, 1916. 635x508 mm; 25x20 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. With an unfinished portrait of a woman in oil, verso. Ex-collection Lloyd Goodrich, former Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Born in Brooklyn in 1884, Guy Pène du Bois was raised in a well-to-do family, formerly from New Orleans. His father, Henri Pène du Bois, was a noted literary critic and Guy grew up in a household immersed in artistic and literary culture. After dropping out of high school in 1899, he became the youngest student at William Merrit Chase's New York Art school. He also studied under J.C. Beckwith, Frank Dumond, Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and later, in Paris, at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere, with Théophile A. Steinlen.
