René Deydier artwork • painting • previously for sale Bal musette

French genre painter René Deydier was from Avignon but lived and worked for most of his life in Paris, where he painted the existence of the workers in the working-class neighbourhoods. For example, many of his paintings from the 1920s show the interior of the 'Bal Musette', a working-class cafe near Place de la Bastille. These cafe scenes, often with a jazz band in the background, were very popular in the 1920s. Between 1924 and 1937, Deydier regularly exhibited his realistic work at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris.