Jacques Duthoo (1910-1960) Composition, 1959, Oil on Canvas, cm. 81 x 116 x 4, signed and dated lower right.

Provenance: private collection

After the debut with some dead natures and flowers dense of subject and of tendency expressionist, discovers the non figurative painting. 

The works of this period are characterized by a grafismo in the tonalities of the black where forms and lines are crossed on backgrounds dominated by the brown ones. 

In the ten following years they are followed to rhythm pressing eight personal exposures near different Parisian galleries and not: Galerie Colette Allendy (1951), Galerie de Beaune (1953), Galerie Saint Laurent to Bruxelles (1954), Galerie de Verneuil (1955), Galerie de the Entr'act to Lausanne (1956), Galerie Dina Vierny (1957); Galerie Beno in Zurich (1958), Galerie Ariel (1959) with winds works that receive great success and they are purchased by important collectors.