Jean-Philippe DALLAIRE (1916-1965 )Naked woman with drape and castle in the distance, 1944 Black pencil . Signed and dated lower right. 21 x 15.5 cmThis Canadian artist born in 1911 began drawing at the age of 11 . After a short internship at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, and thanks to a grant from the Quebec government, Dallaire moved to Paris at the end of September 1938. In 1939 and 1940, he completed his training at the Ateliers d'Art Sacré of Maurice Denis and Georges Desvallières and at the Académie André Lhote. The artist discovered the works of Picasso and the surrealists and met Alfred Pellan. During the German occupation, Dallaire was interned in the Saint-Denis camp, in the suburbs of Paris, where he produced these three drawings.