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JEAN PUY La Rochelle.
Oil on canvas, 1925. 543x740 mm; 21 1/2x29 1/8 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Private collection, Paris; Marlborough Gallery, London and New York.
Published: Limouzi and Fressonnet-Puy, Jean Puy (1876-1960), page 222, number 30040 (illustrated).
Puy was a French Fauvist artist. He studied architecture at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and painting with Jean-Paul Laurens at l'Académie Julian between 1897 and 1898. He met Henri Matisse and other like-minded artists when he transferred to the l'Académie Carrière in 1899. Puy exhibited his work in 1901, then in an Impressionist style, at the Salon des Indépendants; later, as a Fauvist, he exhibited at the 1905 Salon d'Automne.
