Ballet Dancer. Guy Pene du Bois (American, 1884-1958). Oil on canvas.At the age of 21, he made his d
Ballet Dancer. Guy Pene du Bois (American, 1884-1958). Oil on canvas.At the age of 21, he made his debut exhibition in the Paris Salon. Yet owing to his studies with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri in New York, Pène du Bois’ paintings belong to the mainstream of 20th-century American realism. Where his art differed from the realism of such contemporaries as Edward Hopper and Rockwell Kent, however, was in its subjects as well as the undercurrent of satire and gentle mockery in their treatment. -- source link
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