Patricia Deho

PATRICIA DEHO (1934).
"La Ardèche in autumn".
Oil on canvas.
It has slight marks on the pictorial surface.
Signed in the lower left corner. Signed and titled on the stretcher frame.
Measurements: 76 x 92 cm.
In La Ardèche en otoño, Patricia Deho constructs an intimate and serene vision of the French rural landscape, articulated from a sensibility that combines chromatic lyricism and a figuration of evocative character. The work is part of the European landscape tradition of the 20th century, heir to both post-impressionism and certain modulations of poetic realism.
The composition is organized around a diagonal structure that guides the eye along an earthy path that winds between two rural buildings with reddish roofs. This compositional resource not only dynamizes the space, but also creates a progressive depth that culminates in the mountainous distance, softly blurred. The brushstroke, loose and nuanced, avoids precise detail in favor of a chromatic vibration that unifies the whole. The contours appear slightly blurred, suggesting a sensorial rather than a topographical capture of the landscape.
During the 20th century, and particularly in the post-war period, the French rural landscape was the object of a symbolic revaluation, associated both with cultural memory and with a national identity in transformation in the face of accelerated modernization.