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Ramon Dilley
1932 to 2013
Ramon Dilley was born Gómez Ramón y Romero in Madrid in 1932, and his family fled the Spanish Civil War to Royan in 1936. Largely self-taught, he took the name Dilley in the 1960s on the advice of the auctioneer Maurice Rheims, and painted the seaside elegance of Deauville in long, slender figures.
Original Ramon Dilley Paintings for Sale
Signed Dilley, often with the year in two figures
Piper with a Peacock, 1996Nothing in this garden casts a shadow. The figure, the trees and the peacock stand on the path without weight, and the only gold in the picture is kept for the pipe and a thin line of shore across the lake, so that the eye goes from one to the other and back.$4,300See the painting
Elstir en Famille, 1973Nobody in the group looks at anyone else. The four figures stand shoulder to shoulder, each turned a different way, and only the yellow of the child's coat and the man's boater ties them together across the canvas.$2,700See the painting
A Sketch on the Back
The title twice, and a little drawing of the piper.
On the back of this canvas a handwritten note gives the title with a quick sketch of the figure, pinned above the same title written again in capitals.
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From Madrid to Deauville
The Life of Ramon Dilley, Place by Place
A refugee child on the Atlantic coast, he grew up to paint the French seaside under a name an auctioneer gave him.
He is born here in 1932, as Gómez Ramón y Romero.
In 1936 the Spanish Civil War drives his family into exile, and they settle in this seaside town on the Atlantic.
The sculptor Paul Belmondo helps him into the École du Louvre. In the 1960s, on the advice of the auctioneer Maurice Rheims, he begins to sign Dilley.
- 1932Born in MadridGómez Ramón y Romero
- 1936Royanthe family in exile
- 1965Two years of travelliving off his painting
- 1968Catherine Deneuvewho introduces him to Chabrol
- 2013Diesaged about eighty
Stories about Dilley
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A name from an auctioneer.
He was born Gómez Ramón y Romero. In the 1960s the auctioneer Maurice Rheims advised him to paint under another name, and he became Ramon Dilley.
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Biographical information compiled from the Artothèque de Marne-Bois, the Akoun artist directory and published dealer and auction notices. Photographs of the paintings by GalerieClub Fine Art.