{{Short description|French painter (1899–1985)}} {{Infobox person | name =Marcel Dyf | image = | caption = | birth_name =Marcel Dreyfus | birth_date =7 October 1899 | birth_place =Paris, France | death_date ={{death-date and age|15 September 1985|7 October 1899}} | death_place =Bois-d'Arcy, Yvelines, France | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation =Painter | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse =Claudine Godat | children = | parents = | relatives = }} '''Marcel Dyf''' (born '''Marcel Dreyfus''', 7 October 1899 – 15 September 1985) was a French impressionist painter.
==Biography==
===Early life=== Marcel Dyf was born Marcel Dreyfus on 7 October 1899 in Paris.<ref name="official">{{Cite web |title=Dyf biography |url=http://www.marcel-dyf.com/Pages/Biography_en.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=www.marcel-dyf.com}}</ref><ref name="frost">{{Cite web |url=http://www.frostandreed.com/fr_artist/marcel-dyf/ |title=Frost & Reed Gallery |access-date=2013-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226110814/http://www.frostandreed.com/fr_artist/marcel-dyf/ |archive-date=2013-12-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="rehs">{{Cite web |title=Marcel Dyf |url=http://rehs.com/Marcel_Dyf_Bio.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=rehs.com |language=en-US}}</ref> He grew up in Normandy, in the towns of Ault, Deauville and Trouville.<ref name="frost"/> He started a career as an engineer but soon decided to become a painter.<ref name="rehs"/> In 1922, he moved to Arles, where he was trained as a painter and set up a studio.<ref name="official"/><ref name="rehs"/>
===Career=== He painted frescoes in the city halls of Saint-Martin-de-Crau and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.<ref name="frost"/> He also painted frescoes in the Museon Arlaten and in the dining hall of the Collège Ampère, both of which are in Arles.<ref name="frost"/> He also designed windows inside the Église Saint-Louis in Marseille.<ref name="frost"/>
In 1935, he moved to Maximilien Luce's old studio on the Avenue du Maine in Paris.<ref name="frost"/> By 1940, because of the German invasion of France during the Second World War, he returned to Arles.<ref name="frost"/> He quickly joined the French Resistance in Corrèze and the Dordogne.<ref name="frost"/><ref name="rehs"/> He later moved back to Paris and finally moved in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.<ref name="official"/><ref name="frost"/> However, in the 1950s, he started wintering in Paris and summering in Cannes, where he attracted the attention of American art collectors.<ref name="frost"/>
His work was exhibited and sold at the Petrides Gallery, the Salon d’Automne, the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris as well as galleries in Cannes, Nice, Marseille and Strasbourg.<ref name="frost"/> Overseas, it was exhibited at the Frost & Reed Gallery in London.<ref name="official"/>
===Personal life=== In 1954, he married Claudine Godat in Cannes, when she was nineteen years old.<ref name="official"/><ref name="rehs"/> The Dyfs purchased a sixteenth-century hunting lodge in Bois-d'Arcy near Versailles, and it became their primary residence.<ref name="frost"/> They also summered in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and Eygalières.<ref name="frost"/>
He died on 15 September 1985 in Bois-d'Arcy.<ref name="official"/><ref name="rehs"/>
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