Charles Picart Le Doux
1881-1959

Charles Picart Le Doux was born in Paris in 1881. He studied at the Académie Julian and with Gerome at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He began exhibiting in 1904 at the Salon d’Automne and at the Salon des Indépendants beginning in 1906. From 1926 he exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries.

He won a grand prize at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris. He decorated the ceilings of the passenger ship Normandie. Picart Le Doux also designed tapestries and illustrated many books, including works for Baudelaire and Colette.

He was friends with Renoir and was influenced by his work. Picart Le Doux’s palette is sensuous and luminous; his subject matter included nudes, landscapes, and still-lifes.

Picard Le Doux was a modernist; the angular structure and underlying geometry of many of his paintings show the influence of Cézanne.

Picart Le Doux is represented in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg; the painting was acquired by the Museum of Modern Western Art in 1928.