Large Guy Pene Du Bois (American,1884-1958) Oil on Canvas Painting of a Orchestra and Conductor. Signed by the artist and dated 1934. There is some cracking and paint loss. Comes with a book on the artist. Unframed, measures.33.5"x56". Weight on all 6 lbs. Guy Pene du Bois was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 4, 1884 into a well-to-do intellectual New Orleans family. His father Henri Pene du Bois was a noted critic and his son grew up in a highly cultured atmosphere in literary circles. He was named for the French writer Guy de Maupassant who was a close family friend. He dropped out of high school in 1899, and he became the youngest student in William Merrit Chase's school from 1899 to 1905. He also studied with J.C.Beckwith, Frank Dumond, Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Miller and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere with Theophile A.Steinlen. He worked as police and court reporter for the New York American, New York Tribune, and the New York Evening Post and was editor of Arts and Decoration Magazine for seven years. He often pursued a dual career, earning a reputation as both an artist and a critic. He is best remembered for his paintings of the 1920s of Jazz Age America in which he subtly comments on the emptiness of the bourgeois life. In 1924, when he was in his forties, and with his wife, Floy, he spent six years in France,which was a turning point in his painting career. He turned to broader subject matter from New York Realism as taught by Robert Henri. Guy Pene Du Bois was the father of painters Yvonne and William Du Bois and Raoul Du Bois was a cousin.

some cracking and paint loss