La lecture

Jean Puy (French, 1876-1960) - La lecture, 1924 (Oil on canvas) - - His brother Michel – an art-critic who, in 1907 in La Phalange, wrote the first study paper on the Fauvists – publishes a monograph on Jean Puy at the NRF in 1920, where he writes: “One would think this man joyful but he is tormented. (…) His subjects, as captured from reality as they seem, enter in a composition that has been meditated at great length. He never stops at the outside of an object or model, but penetrates their inner emotion.”