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Paul Lucien Dessau
Self Portrait in Paris - Mid 20th Century French Naif Oil on Canvas Painting
1957

Name: Self Portrait in Paris - Mid 20th Century French Naif Oil on Canvas Painting
Brand: Paul Lucien Dessau
Price: 3698.71 AUD
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CHF 1,953.30

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NOK 24,887.31

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About the Item

A very interesting signed and dated 1957 oil on canvas depicting a self portrait in Paris, by Paul Lucien Dessau. A leading example of the artist's work which is signed, dated and inscribed "To my friend Edmond, with friendship" lower right. Presented in a black painted frame. Paul Lucien Dessau was a British painter and auxillery fireman during WW2. He joined the firemen artists' committee and became well known for his portraits of firemen during this time. After the War he moved to France with his wife and painted charming works in the naif style. The current work is especially important, as it blends the two different styles of painting for which Dessau has become well known - portraits and naif art. Artist: Paul Lucien Dessau (British, 1909-1999) Title: Self Portrait in Paris Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 27.5 x 21 inches (70 x 54 cm) including the frame Paul Lucien Dessau was born in London, the third of four children. His father died when he was young and he did not do well at school. On leaving school he joined a commercial art studio as an apprentice, mostly doing catalogue work for department stores. In due course, he left to start his own design studio with his brother Bernard, who was also known as Dewsbury Dessau. Whilst continuing to work, Paul Dessau began to study part-time at the Hornsey School of Art and then took anatomy classes at the Central School of Art and Design and eventually began to show works at various London galleries. At the start of the Second World War Paul Dessau, and his brother Bernard, joined the Auxiliary Fire Service, which in 1941 became the National Fire Service. A number of artists had joined the NFS and a firemen artists' committee was formed which included Bernard Hailstone, Leonard Rosoman, Norman Hepple and Robert Coram as well as Dessau. The NFS agreed to assist the artists as long as their fire-fighting duties were not adversely affected and the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC, agreed to consider purchasing any works produced. In time, WAAC were to purchase at least two paintings by Dessau. As well as contributing to both WAAC and specialist civil defence art shows, the firemen held several of their own exhibitions. In 1941, the Firemen Artist Group attracted some 64,000 people in a month to the first of twenty exhibitions they were to hold at the Cooling Galleries. In addition, four firemen artist exhibitions were held at the Royal Academy and then toured around Britain during the war whilst a further two exhibitions toured America and Canada. Several works by Dessau featured in these wartime exhibitions including And So To Bed, showing a carefully laid-out uniform of an auxiliary fireman, and several fine portraits including one of Divisional Officer Blackstone, who was awarded the George Medal for his actions after a fire station was bombed during the Blitz. Menace is a set of four canvases, now in the London Fire Brigade Museum, entitled Overture, Crescendo, Rallentando and Diminuendo, which show fire-fighters tackling a giant demonic fire figure which towers over them in the first canvas, Overture, but lies defeated in the final Diminuendo. Dessau also contributed illustrations to the 1942 NFS anthology Fire and Water, to the 1943 WAAC booklet Air Raids and to a 1943 book on firemen co-written by Stephen Spender. After the war Dessau, and his wife whom he had married in 1935, moved out of London and settled in the France, where he pursued a career as a successful painter in the naif style.

Creator:
Paul Lucien Dessau (1909 - 1999)
Creation Year:
1957
Dimensions:
Height: 27.56 in (70 cm)Width: 21.26 in (54 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Period:
1950-1959
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Sevenoaks, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1955216227742

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