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MARCEL DYF La Meauldre à Neauphle le Vieux (Yvelynes, Île-de-France).
Oil on canvas, 1968. 460x550 mm; 18x21¾ inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Claudine Dyf has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this painting. The work is registered in the Marcel Dyf Archive as No. ID 2263.
Provenance: Frost & Reed, London; private collection, West Virginia.
Dyf (1899-1985) spent his childhood in Paris and Normandy, where he was immersed in the artistic influences of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. As a young man, he abandoned his career in engineering to become an artist in Arles. Largely self-taught, Dyf was able to forge a successful career; he was commissioned to paint several frescoes in Arles and Marseille and sold work through galleries in other major French cities. In 1955 Frost & Reed purchased Dyf's paintings, opening up a new market in London for the artist. This relationship would last for the rest of Dyf's life, and the gallery continued to represent him after his death. A large part of Dyf's oeuvre was painted in Brittany, Provence, and Île-de-France, the latter of which is depicted in the current work.
