Roland Dubuc

French painter born in 1924, in Caudebec-les Elbeuf in Normandy, in a very modest family, sixth child of a family of thirteen children. At 14, he had to get to work and joined a local company as an apprentice painter. He lives rather miserably in Rouen and has the Salvation Army for shelter. He meets the painters Bordes, Le Trividic and Frechon who sympathize with him and give him advice.

 He is the last painter of Montmartre from the time of Maclet, Genin, Utrillo, Gen-Paul, and he has in his painting all the strength and the joy of the bohemian life of Montmartre.

In 1947 he married and from this union was born a son whom he did not know until very late. Roland Dubuc, after having divorced, left for Le Havre where he met the painters Friboulet and Pailhes. He sells a few paintings at the Hamon gallery and lives from day to day, doing all kinds of jobs to survive: clown in a circus, newspaper seller, but always painting and trying to sell his paintings.

In 1950, he decided to come and try his luck in Paris and continued to practice small jobs to live and to be able to paint. He met Michel Doddli who was a tailor at rue Victor-Massé at the time and later opened a gallery. M.Doddli will have it exhibited at the Grand Palais in the exhibition "The Great and the Young of Today". In 1958 he obtained the silver medal of the City of Paris with a painting entitled "The band of the firefighters of Montmartre".

In 1960 Roland Dubuc remarried Edith Loisel, with whom he had two daughters. He then works at the hairdresser Antoine to make clay sculptures serve as a model. 1962, he exhibits sculptures at the Contemporary Gallery, rue de Châteaudun.

 In 1968, he separated from his wife and in 1972, he made his first exhibition, alone as a painter, at Jacqueline Laugier, rue Lepic in Montmartre. He moved to Switzerland where he exhibited in a gallery in Geneva. He sells a few paintings at the Petit Palais.

In 1980, he returned to France and settled in Cherbourg with a doctor friend.

 In 1984, he returned to Paris and worked for the Pittiglio gallery for a while. At the end of 1985, one of his old friends Jean Paul Villain, who had been buying paintings from him for 20 years, opened a gallery at 29, rue de Miromesnil.

He signs a worldwide exclusive contract with this gallery. It is for Roland Dubuc the painter, the beginning of success. His paintings are beginning to be sold in the U.S.A, Japan, Israel, Great Britain, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland...

He died in his studio in Elbeuf in Normandy on February 27, 1998.