Abbot Pierre Cales 1870 1961 Blue Landscape

Blue landscape by Abbot Pierre Cales signed and dated lower left Pierre Calès (1870-1961). Painter and priest of Tencin, friend of Jules Flandrin and Henriette Deloras, Pierre Calès occupies a special place in the regional artistic landscape. Today we remember him as much for his abundant work as for his extraordinary personality. . Marked by impressionism, his main themes of inspiration are linked to landscape. He happily paints and repaintes the same places, capturing the atmospheres and the ever-changing lights. His vigorous painting, using the technique of oil with a knife on cardboard with “reserves”, captures the wild side of nature. We know of him his numerous Valleys or his Three Trees, themes that he draws from his immediate environment, but he also gives us landscapes of sea and ports, which as an experienced traveler he visited, and as a connoisseur He painted.