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Signed ‘d’Anty’ (lower left); signed again (on the reverse).
Sizes:
Frame: 64.5 × 73.5 cm | 25.4 × 28.9 in
Artwork: 46.5 × 55 cm | 18.3 × 21.7 in
A village on fair day: red roofs, a dark-gabled house and a church tower under a sky of broken cloud, with a crowd of villagers in black, blue and red streaming along the road. The paint is laid on with the palette knife in thick, sparkling slabs of colour — D’Anty’s unmistakable technique.
Henry Maurice D’Anty (1910–1998), born in Belleville and trained at the Grande Chaumière and the Académie Julian, settled after the war in Montmartre, where he worked in Picasso’s former studio, and exhibited for decades at the Salon des Peintres Témoins de leur Temps. His knife-painted landscapes, villages and harbours, glowing with impasto, entered many public collections in France and North America.
Signed ‘d’Anty’ at the lower left and again on the reverse.
Private Collection, Spain.
Oil on canvas, framed. Good condition; the thick palette-knife impasto is intact; no losses observed. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report.
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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.
Highlights of the Aurora & Athena autumn sale on 17 October 2026: Bridget Tichenor, Nicholas Roerich, Konstantin Korovin, Gerard Sekoto, Jan Zrzavý, Pan Yuliang, a Miró lithograph and the painters of the École de Paris.
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