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1910-1998 | French
Henry d'Anty, Henri d'Anty, Maurice Henry
École de Paris Painter of Knife-Built Landscapes
Henry d’Anty was born Maurice Henry in the Belleville quarter of Paris on 8 September 1910. Raised partly by his grandmother in Saint-Cast during the First World War, he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Julian, and it was in Brittany that he understood, in his own words, that only painting could render the power of light.
Mobilised and taken prisoner in the Second World War, he settled afterwards in Montmartre, where he worked in the former studio of Pablo Picasso.
A member of the École de Paris, d’Anty exhibited for many years at the Salon des Peintres Témoins de leur Temps and with Paris and provincial galleries. His landscapes, villages, harbours, flowers and clowns are built with the palette knife in thick, glowing slabs of colour, and his lithographs spread his imagery widely.
By the time of his death at Villejuif on 4 December 1998, museums in France and North America had acquired numerous examples of his work.
