Yves Alix. "Woman Head" oil on canvas. Circa 1930.

Yves ALIX (1890-1969)

Woman head.

Oil on canvas. Signed upper right.
Exhibition tag on reverse "Galerie BARREIRO".
I have made researches about this Gallery and there was an exhibition in 1931 with several painters including ALIX.
Please see pictures below with "PARIS SOIR 1931" article.

50cm 65cm (63cm 78cm with frame).

Please read bio and painter info after pictures section.
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sold 10 2022 (EU)
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Bio

After a figurative beginning, Yves Alix became interested in cubism in 1913, applying his personal interpretations to it but keeping the tones. During the 1920s and 1930s, the artist's work was marked by a return to a certain classicism leading to an expressionist period, then by an attraction to nature. Finally, from 1946, the light color, the construction and the simplification of the line will guide the work of the painter for three decades.

Alongside his pictorial and graphic creations, the artist creates sets and costumes for performances of works by Molière, Henri Bernstein, William Shakespeare, Maurice Ravel and Richard Wagner. He produced wall decorations for the liner Normandie, for a pavilion for the 1937 International Exhibition and for the hotel La Colombe d'Or in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Yves Alix is ​​the author of illustrations for the works of Sophocles, Henry de Montherlant, Fernand Fleuret, Alphonse Daudet. He draws models for the Mobilier national, cartoons for tapestries for the Gobelins manufactory and for that of Aubusson.

In 1939, he completed the writing of Notes sur l'art, 1912-1940: testimony, a look at the work of the painters he knew between the years 1912 and 1939.

Since 1912, his works have been presented in the Salons, in a hundred collective exhibitions and in twenty-eight personal exhibitions. His paintings are kept in many public collections in Paris at the National Museum of Modern Art, at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, in the National Fund for Contemporary Art, in Albi at the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, in Amiens , in Épinal, La Rochelle, the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, Orléans, Pont-Aven, as well as abroad in Algiers, Jakarta, Moscow, Rabat, Riga, Skopje and Tokyo.