Keuleyan-Lafon – Rocky Coast in Evening Light

Jean Lafon, also Keuleyan-Lafon
(1886 Paris – 1973)

ROCKY COAST IN EVENING LIGHT

Painted after 1918
Oil on canvas
33 x 41 cm

Signed lower left: 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 are regularly traded. They often depict the bizarre coastline near Agay on the Côte d’Azur with its red rocks, which were painted by all the great Impressionists (including Monet, Guillaumin and Valtat).