Paul de Castro [1882-1939]
English/Italian
The Bridge of Avignon, ca.1910
Oil on canvas
20 x 25 inches
Signed at lower left : ‘P de Castro’.

Paul de Castro (5 July 1882) was a French naturalized French naturalised in Livorno, and died on 10 January 1940 at Cabrières-d’Avignon (Vaucluse) 2.3, and was a French painter.

Paul de Castro studied painting at the École nationale supérieure des Fine Arts de Paris in the workshops of Fernand Cormon and Eugène Thirion. He exhibits at the Salon des Independants, at the Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts and at the Fall Show. He is primarily specialized in landscape, painting parks and streets in Paris and provincial views.
Castro was named Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour.4
Works in public collections
In Belgium
Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts.
In France
Avignon, Calvet Museum.
The Rochelle, the Museum of Fine Arts.
Paris:
Little Palace.
museum of Orsay.
Exhibitions
1907: exhibition with Gaston Prunier, Eugene Blot gallery, Paris.
1909: exhibition with André Roberty, gallery Henry Graves, Paris.
1912: exhibition of painters of Versailles, gallery Charles Hessele, Paris.
1912: exhibition with Theodor Pallady, gallery Richelieu, Paris.
1931: Bernheim-Young gallery.
1932 : Les painters des provinces français, avec Kees van Dongen, Lucien Simon and Auguste Chabaud, gallery Charpentier, Paris.