SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
Léon Detroy developed much of his career around Gargilesse and the landscapes of the Creuse valley. Following training in Paris, he settled in the village, renting a house that he bought in 1912 and occupied until his death. His attachment to this setting did not prevent travel, notably to Normandy and North Africa. Associated with Post-Impressionism, his painting found an enduring subject in landscape, sustained by the alternation between a familiar home and other places. A friend of the poet Maurice Rollinat, he also met Claude Monet at Fresselines. Participation in the Salon des Indépendants in 1905 connected this activity to exhibition networks beyond the region with which his work remains particularly closely associated.
This profile brings together identity references for Léon Detroy and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Genève Enchères
References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.
Oil on canvas
Rivage de Méditerranée
huile sur toile
Date to be documented
Published result : 5000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 500–800
View the lot at the auction house ↗SwissArtGallery documentary note based on the cited sources. Titles, media and qualifications are provided in the profile language; the original catalogue wording remains available in each record.
Profile updated :
Recently enriched profiles
Michel Loth develops a painting practice rooted in nature, particularly its forces of transformation. Based in Riquewihr in Alsace, he explores relationships between matter and light…
1 auction referenceErik Boulatov, also transliterated as Erik Bulatov, was born in Sverdlovsk in 1933 and trained in Moscow. Illustrating children’s books, notably with Oleg Vassiliev, allowed him to p…
2 auction referencesFrans Hogerwaard, also known as François Hogerwaard, participated in Dutch artistic life in the early twentieth century. He is documented in an exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Mu…
1 auction reference