Still life by Jacqueline Luyton 1923-2018

Oil on canvas by Jacqueline Luyton (1923-2018) This amateur painter, who never exhibited or sought to sell one of her paintings, was a former resistance fighter, very committed to the left. She frequented Picasso, Briata and Fernand Léger. She was the wife of the Toulon architect Paul Luyton, whom she had met in the resistance. Still life with flowers; knife painting technique; lack of paint on the pictorial layer and a slight dent (see photos); dimensions: 90x 65cm.