Code:P349

Eric Dettow (1888-1952)

Lovely use of colours and impasto. A bright and joyous painting.

Oil on board.

Signed to bottom left.

Colioure is inscribed to the rear translating to French Commune.

Approximate dimensions inc frame: H:53 W:64cm D:4.5cm.

Condition: Painting is in good condition. The original frame has scuffs, marks and losses to the gilding.

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Biography:

Eric Detthow was born in 1888 in Vassända-Naglum parish, Sweden and passed away in 1952. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm before going to Paris for the first time in 1913. After the end of World War I, he returned to Paris in 1919 for a longer stay. Detthow was inspired by the dissolved paintings of Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat and their innovative use of colours and light.

He intensively studied the works he saw in Paris and soon learned to build his own compositions according to fixed structures. He is a well recorded painter represented in the National Museum and Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and in the Museum of Malmo.

Detthow was a keen observer and gained an early foothold in Parisian art life. As early as 1920, he was elected to the exhibition organization Salon d’Automne in Paris and participated in their annual exhibition.