Jean-rené Truffier (1905-1982) Large Trees, Nontron Dordogne

Jean-René TRUFFIER
(Nontron 1905 – Chancelade 1982)
Large trees, Nontron
Oil on canvas
H. 73 cm; L. 60 cm
Signed lower right - 1962

Provenance: Private collection, Bordeaux

Born in the north of the department at the beginning of the 20th century, Jean-René Truffier went to study at Sainte Foy la Grande in Gironde and at Périgueux. He then went to Angers where he entered the School of Arts and Crafts. A career engineer, he will always practice the arts. Poet until his last days, talented musician (he was notably first violin at the Algiers Opera in 1928 during the Saint-Saëns Festival) and of course painter. Associate of French Artists since 1966, he exhibited at the Paris Salon since the 1930s and until the very month of his death in 1982. In Paris, he was exhibited at the famous picture rails of the Bernheim and Cambacérès galleries. Numerous personal exhibitions were also organized in Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Biarritz and even Périgueux. He will spend the last years of his life, from 1965, in Chancelade, creating small bright and colorful landscapes of the surroundings and publishing a few collections of poetry.

It was in 1962 that Truffier produced this beautiful format, much more imposing than the majority of his works. Visually, the luminous breakthrough and the leaning trees on the path give a very interesting triangular composition. It was in Nontron, certainly in the entrance of a property whose red roofs can be seen through the trees on the right, that this painting was made.