Louis Peyré (1923-2012) Self-portrait With Yellow Meter

Louis PEYRÉ
(Campagnan 1923 – Sète 2012)
Self-portrait by yellow meter
Oil on canvas
H. 73 cm; L. 60 cm

Provenance: Studio of the artist

Louis Peyré is a figurative painter close to the New School of Paris movement of the 1950s. His artistic training took place from 1945 to 1947 at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier. His teachers were the painters Camille Descossy, Georges Dezeuze and Jean-Aristide Rudel. The painters who interested him then were: Pierre Tal-Coat, Maurice Estève, Albert Gleizes, André Blondel and especially Francis Gruber. He discovered 17th century Spanish and Dutch painting in Parisian museums as well as the painters Constable, Courbet, Cézanne , Bazille and Bonnard. His technique is more mastered and he uses it for unconventional compositions. Beings, objects, landscapes are not decorative. It is an intimate art, measured, stripped of aesthetic research: yet it strikes at the heart of the subject. The scenes, imprinted with sensitivity, are alive, thanks to a firm drawing and a vigorous, very earthy pictorial touch. The ray of light that crosses his paintings enlarges the space and makes us see the essence of the subject. He exhibited in many galleries in Paris and in the south of France but also in Germany, he obtained in 1970 a silver medal at the Salon of French Artists in Paris.

Our work is atypical in its construction and the colored elements blocking the field of vision. The yellow folding rule illuminates the canvas, and the white pot with the red cap allows the scene to be punctuated by its reflection in the mirror and therefore to better indicate to us what the painter wished to express.

Framed in a black American case