Sleeping dancer
Oil on panel 43 x64 cm
Signed bottom right: J Puy
Painted about 1922
Jean Puy belongs to the so-called semi-fauve painters. Although he participated at the first of the Independants at the beginneng of 1900 he did not consequently continued the fauvistic style but started a colorfull intimistic style inwhich the feeling and behavior of the individual became his motive.
