American Football/ Doutreleau/... "American Football" by Pie - Lot 136

American Football/ Doutreleau/... "American Football" by Pierre Doutreleau. Superb artist's proof (EA), signed by the artist in pencil in the margin. With this charge, we return to the great Doutreleau, a lover of movement above all else, who signed a number of high-flying sports works, such as his painting "Twickenham" (in the collections of the Musée du Sport, an attack that sweeps across the entire green lawn), his 12 illustrations for Montherlant's "Les Olympiques" in 1994, not to mention his whirling dervish golfer. This bulldozer belongs to a whole series of studies on this spectacular American discipline, where movement is at its peak in terms of strength, speed and, it must be stressed, elegance. It remains the strongest work in the series. Question: "Will the white player disintegrate the red one, or vice versa? "The work (68x53) benefits from a successful frame (83x68), which embellishes the roaring power of the work...by the artist born in 1938, next to the Arènes d'Arles. The racket of rugby is outdated here. With a hook on the back. For the record, France is no stranger to this discipline, which made appearances in Levallois in 1897, Nice in 1909, and enjoyed a propaganda tour in 1938 (in the midst of the treizist movement, with the All Stars and the NY Selection, in Le Parc, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, etc.). With ambassadors like Accambray, the French Federation continues to grow.