RAMON DILLEY Born in 1932

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Ramon Dilley is a French painter, engraver, lithographer and illustrator of Spanish origin who was born in Madrid in 1932. Dilley is a pseudonym and the painter's exact marital status is Gomez Ramon y Romero. He came from a family that took pride in having the conquistadors Pizarro and Trujillo as ancestors.
The Spanish Civil War forced Gomez Ramon y Romero's parents into exile and they settled in Royan in 1936. The young boy was impressed by the elegant atmosphere of the seaside resort and by the wealthy vacationers who frequented it.
It was the meeting with the sculptor Paul Belmondo that would decide the fate of Gomez Ramon y Romero. Paul Belmondo appreciated his artistic qualities and used his influence to get him into the Ecole du Louvre.
However, it was as an autodidact that the young man approached the world of painting.
After a first contact with Great Painting, where he continued to copy the works of the masters in museums, he traveled around the world for two years, from 1965 to 1967. During these two years of wandering, he lived on product of his painting.
Back in Paris, he followed the advice of auctioneer Maurice Rheims and took the pseudonym Ramon Dilley. From his first exhibitions, Dilley found his style. Nostalgia for exile and periods of bygone happiness underlie its creation, where we find elegant Thirties and legendary seaside resorts. Deauville, Trouville, Cannes, Nice are his favorite subjects, and he populates these fashionable beaches with frivolous and carefree characters.
This Scott Fitzgerald of painting immediately found success.
Very extroverted, Ramon Dilley seeks clientele from the jet set and the world of cinema.

The world of letters also welcomed him, and the painter became friends with Mauriac, as with Giono and Marcel Achard.
In 1968, he met Catherine Deneuve, who introduced him to Claude Chabrol. The director will become one of his passionate collectors. But fans of Dilley's work also include the Shah of Iran, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
If Dilley's painting is immediately accessible and appeals to fashionable people, to "people" we would now say, it is far from superficial. The man is flamboyant and knows how to seduce. But the complex emotions conveyed by his evocations of vanished worlds go straight to the heart. Behind the beautiful images we can read, of course, sadness and nostalgia, but also desire and tenderness, as well as the desire to control one's destiny.

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