American Masterpieces from Dryads Green Gallery (Please Scroll Down--Catalogue is Alphabetical by Artist Last Name)

Artist Name:         Louis Paul Dessar Artist Dates:         1867-1952 Painting Title:       Bringing in the Sheep Painting Date:      Undated Medium:              Oil on  Canvas Signature:             Signed Provenance:          Doyle Condition:            Needs rebacking Size Unframed:    12 x 16 Size Framed:         20 x 24 Frame Condition:   Ornate, Worn Artist Best Price:   $38,240 Our Price:              SOLD

Curator's Comments: Dessar studied at  the National Academy of Design in New York and traveled to Europe to study under Bouguereau at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was active in France in the 1880s and maintained a summer house in Etaples in Fountainebleau, where he focused on rural subjects.  He returned to New York in 1892, and joined a cadre of Tonalists who spent summers in Old Lyme, Connecticut. He came under the influence of Tonalist leader Henry Ward Ranger. But Dessar concentrated on agrarian scenes of nature in the Barbizon Tonalist mood and his contemporaries called him the "Millet of America.” He won medals at the Paris Salon of 1891, the Columbian Expo of 1893, and the Pan-Am Expo in 1901, and was admitted to the National Academy in 1906. Dessar sought the perfect combination of light and color, which is evident in this very rich example that captures the best of the features that typify his canvases. His layered effect meant that he could spend as much as a year on a single, carefully built up work, and our painting is truly an extremely beautiful rendition of pale, almost white sunset, white birch and russet, and very reminiscent of Dessar's "Return of the Flock" in the Smith-sonian. In the  Doyle sale catalogue, curator Alan Fausel directly identifies the painting as a Dessar, and the stretcher is signed "Dessar." In a rich antique frame that itself needs cleaning, with plaque reading: "Louis Paul Dessar / American / b. 1867." Under glass, canvas needs rebacking and there is crackelure.

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