Good general condition, see photo André Dunoyer de Segonzac, born in Boussy-Saint-Antoine (Seine-et-Oise, today Essonne) on July 7, 1884 and died in Paris on September 17, 1974, is a French painter, engraver and illustrator. In his youth, Dunoyer de Segonzac attended the Henri-IV high school where he met Gus Bofa who would remain one of his close friends. In 1900, he was a free student at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. In 1903, he entered the private studio of Luc-Olivier Merson. In 1907, he was a student of Jean-Paul Laurens and attended the La Palette academy in Montparnasse; he met Luc-Albert Moreau and Jean-Louis Boussingault with whom he shared a studio. His first drawings were published in 1908 in La Grande Revue and Le Témoin. In 1908, he began exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants, with Paul Signac and Maximilien Luce. From this period, renting a house belonging to Signac, Dunoyer discovered the landscapes of Saint-Tropez, to which he remained faithful and where he lived until the end of his life. He only stayed in Saint-Tropez during the summer months. For the rest, he led a true nomadic life, searching for the motif especially across the Île-de-France, the Grand Morin valley, Feucherolles, Chennevières-sur-Marne, Guyancourt, etc. In one of his letters to the painter Maurice Boitel, he wrote in the 1950s: "I have not forgotten the heroic period of the independents - when we were grouped around Paul Signac, the charming and valiant Maximilien Luce - in these barracks where living and authentic Art was grouped outside of academic formulas - or literary and systematic trends - which were to lead to this abstract aesthetic from which painting is dying." In 1910, he met the couturier Paul Poiret and Max Jacob, Raoul Dufy and Vlaminck. From 1910 to 1914, he travelled to Italy, Spain and North Africa, and was interested in sport and dance (drawings of Isadora Duncan's Ballet Russes, 1911, Les Boxeurs, 1910). From 1914 to 1918, mobilised in the infantry, he fought hard in the war, before being assigned to camouflage. He produced many war drawings, valuable for their artistic and documentary value. From 1919 onwards, he again appeared in numerous exhibitions, including the main Parisian salons. Almost indifferent to contemporary aesthetic revolutions, Dunoyer de Segonzac undertook, with Boussingault and Moreau, to resurrect Courbet's realism by producing still lifes, nudes and landscapes in a thick, masonry paste. Introduced to engraving by Jean Émile Laboureur, he produced nearly 1,600 copperplates between 1919 and 1970. He was president of the Society of French Painters-Gravers. In 1921, he met Valéry, Léon-Paul Fargue and Jean Cocteau. In 1928, he travelled to America where he enjoyed great success. In 1930, he became friends with Derain. In 1933, he received the Carnegie Foundation Prize in Pittsburgh and in 1934 the Venice Biennale Prize. During the Occupation, he took part in a "study trip" to Germany in November 1941, organized by Arno Breker, agreeing, like other of the most renowned artists, to visit the high places of German culture as well as artists' studios. After the war, his work was exhibited in the best galleries, in 1949-1950 at the Galerie Charpentier, in 1969 at the Galerie Vallotton, and in 1972 at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. Dunoyer de Segonzac created sets and costumes for the theater, illustrated many literary works (Carco, Dorgeles, Tristan Bernard, Paul Morand, Jules Romains, etc.). He also published a lot, especially his etchings. Dunoyer de Segonzac's work is multiple, multiple technically since it is divided between drawings, engravings (around 2000), illustrations, watercolors, paintings (painting that he would only practice episodically from 1925), but also multiple aesthetically because under its various materializations different plastic conceptions were expressed. André Dunoyer de Segonzac died in Paris in 1974. He rests in St Tropez. Type:Lithograph