The Collection of Dorrance "Dodo" H. Hamilton

Provenance: The Artist.

Acquired directly from the above.

The sitter.

By descent in the family.

Collection of Dorrance H. Hamilton.

NOTE:

Marcel Dyf (né Marcel Dreyfus) was born in Paris in 1899. Although he studied engineering, he showed a talent for painting and rapidly embraced an artistic career at the age of twenty-three. A self-taught artist, Dyf spent much of his time in Paris and Normandy, observing the paintings of fellow Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, who proved to be a strong influence throughout his entire career. Dyf bought a studio in Arles in 1922 and began his career as a landscape artist there, painting views of the surrounding countryside and occasionally exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, Salon d'Autumne and Salon des Tuileries.

The present piece is a portrait of Mrs. Charlotte Wright, Dorrance H. Hamilton's aunt.