Dominique Dorie was born in Versailles in 1958. At the age of sixteen he began working in the Louvre as a restorer of sculptures. He enjoyed the opportunities to study the many masterpieces hanging on the walls of the great museum and felt impelled to sketch them but had very little free time to do so. Nevertheless he had several small “exhibitions” by hanging his work in the evenings on the fences of the church of St. Germain des Pres.
1977 marked the turning point for Dorie. He won a scholarship offered by the city of Paris, which enabled him to enroll in a night course in drawing. As his skills in that field improved, he developed a desire to use color and began to paint in oil. From 1974 on Dorie participated in a number of exhibitions in towns surrounding Paris. He also had two one-man shows Paris and one in Strausbourg between 1982 and 1984.
In 1985 he exhibited his work in the Salon de Criel and in the Salon d’Orly. He was awarded the Prix du Salon in the latter exhibition. In 1984 and in 1985 he exhibited in the prestigious Salon d’Automne. In 1986 he won the Medaille d’Or at an exhibition in Deauville.
Though Paris is the center of art in France, working there can be accompanied by many distractions. At the age of 24, Dorie decided to move to calmer surroundings in a small village on the edge of the sea of Normandy where he continues to work.
Dorie’s textured canvases display a unique color sense; his clearly blocked, linear approach brings depth and a quiet strength to a rural landscape, a serene harbor, or a shadowed interior. Dorie is constantly refining his very individualistic style and broadening his range with a variety of new subjects. We are proud to represent his work in the United States.