PIERRE OLIVIER DUBAUT

Portrait - Drawing by Pierre Olivier Dubaut - Mid-20th Century

Mid-20th Century

Pierre Olivier Dubaut was born in Paris, he had a great predilection for horses, which he represents in many paintings and watercolors. He etched sometimes on the etch and on the stone. He was a member of several artistic societies, he especially admired Theodore Gericault, he had collected a remarkable collection of drawings and watercolors and also some paintings by this painter. He collected also drawings by Delacroix and Guys. In collaboration with the late Duke of Treviso, he was preparing a definitive work on Géricault. In addition, he had also a collection of old Masters drawings. "Pierre Olivier Dubaut is a virtuoso of watercolor, the ideal vehicle for his supple invention and warm spontaneity. With a nimble brush, he seizes without fixing it the life which passes, the fleeting movement, the ephemeral. He suggests the form of an unrepentant, elegant and light stroke: scenes of trenches during the 1914-1918 war, horse races, paddock, polo, bathers seen on the beach of Deauville. Elliptical and limpid washes build the essential. His watercolors appear in several museums, notably in Trouville, Compiègne, Belfort, The Hague..." Gerald Schurr Pierre Cabanne "Dictionnaire des petits maîtres 1820-1920"