Jean Deyrolle was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, France in 1911, where his father, who was a military doctor, was stationed. His family is Breton and they will settle in Vannes when he is only a few months old. They move to Quimper, then to Concarneau after the death of his father when he is 13. His grandfather is a painter. In 1929, Jean Deyrolle enters the School of Art and Publicity in Paris. He follows a formation for 3 years; he starts engraving and produces his first lithographs and linocuts. He obtains his diploma and abandons the busyness of Paris and moves back to Concarneau. He starts to paint and travels throughout Brittany, making studies of still-lives and painting the countryside.

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