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Paul Crotto

Paul Crotto was born in New York in 1922 to Polish and German parents. After seeing service in the Far East in the US Navy, he studied in New York at the Art Students League. As for many American artists, Paris beckoned, and so in 1949 he left for France and studied alongside Le Courbusier with Fernand Leger, afterwards spending two years at the Beaux-Arts Florence. In the 1960s his oils were exhibited widely in Europe and America and in 1963 he was awarded the Prix de Peinture Villeneuve-sur-Lot. He later joined Robert Graves artistic community in Deia and settled in Paris, within sight of the former ateliers of Braque, Lautrec and Leger.

Although he was initially influenced by cubism and Modigliani, he soon strived to obtain a very personal and positive style without any exterior influence. He developed an individual expression and delight in colours in his drawings avoiding any type of repetition of other well-known painters.

Today he is creating most of his sketches in Deia and using them for painting those in his atelier in Paris together with still-lives and figure-paintings.

Webbs Road Fine Art are making available in the UK for the first time since the 1970s, the hand made prints by this master of twentieth century art.