Amédée of La Patellière

Amédée-Marie-Dominique Dubois de La Patellière (Vallet, 1890 - Paris, 1932) was a French painter, attached to Expressionism.

Born in Vallet, in the Nantes region, he spent his childhood in the countryside, which would be a great source of inspiration for his work. After preparing to enter the Naval Academy, in 1910 he entered the Julian Academy of Paris. After World War I spent some time in Tunisia, where he will capture the great luminosity of the region in his drawings. Installed in Paris, between 1921 and 1931 he did most of his work, including more than nine hundred paintings, three hundred drawings and several engravings. Attached to Expressionism as his friends André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Le Fauconnier, he developed a style based on the dense pictorial paste, with a tendency to chiaroscuro and solid volumes. During a stay in Provence, in the last years of its life (1930-1931), it diversified its chromatic range.

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