"Since 1960, Antoine Dumas has been walking on the most disparate and often banal subjects, a gaze full of tenderness and humour. He draws sketches of these fleeting scenes that become, at the end of a long elaboration, these strange paintings at once candid and learned that we know and often deal with illustrations. Dumas does not mind. He is the grandson of a printer, the son of a journalist, a former graphic designer and a professor of graphic communication. It is not surprising that laden with such heavy heredity, the painter retains certain distortions: «What I feel and which I try to translate by my images, I like that people understand it easily». Moreover, he fully assumes the situation and even believes that his paintings win"

-Translated from French Source:-  de Vie des arts: Daigneault, G. (1976). Le Journalisme poétique d’Antoine Dumas. Vie des arts, 21(85), 28–30.