Keuleyan-Lafon – Sunset on the Coast of Agay

Jean Keuleyan-Lafon

(1886 Paris – 1973)

SUNSET ON THE COAST OF AGAY

Painted in the 1910s

Oil on canvas

38 x 54 cm

Signed lower right: Keuleyan

Jean Lafon was born into an artist family. He was the son of the church painter Jaques-Emile Lafon and the grandson of the history painter Francois Lafon. To avoid being confused with his father, he called himself Keuleyan-Lafon or simply Keuleyan and worked exclusively as a landscape and marine painter.

He specialized in picturesque sunsets and coasts in moonlight. His paintings are exhibited in French museums and are regularly traded. They often depict the bizarre coast at Agay on the Côte d'Azur with its red rocks, painted by all the major Impressionists (including Monet, Guillaumin, and Valtat).

The fact that the color of the rocks in "Sunset on the Coast of Agay" tends towards violet is due to the evening or moonlight. This painting, signed Keuleyan in the lower right, was likely created around 1910, certainly before World War I. After the war, during which he was captured by the Germans, the artist signed as Jean Lafon.

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