Keuleyan-Lafon – The Red Rocks of Agay in the Evening Light

Jean Lafon, also Keuleyan-Lafon

(1886 Paris – 1973)

THE RED ROCKS OF AGAY IN THE EVENING LIGHT

Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: Jean Lafon

Jean Lafon was born into a family of artists. He was the son of the church painter Jacques-Émile Lafon and the grandson of the history painter François 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 moonlit coastlines. His paintings are exhibited in French museums and regularly trade on the art market. They often depict the dramatic coastline near Agay on the Côte d’Azur with its red rocks, a subject painted by all the great Impressionists (including Monet, Guillaumin, and Valtat).