Henri Pailler - Le Pont De Bonnemort - La Rochelle - Oil On Canvas, Signed - 38 X 55 Cm

Henri Pailler
Le Pont De Bonnemort - La Rochelle - Oil On Canvas, Signed - 38 x 55 cm


Pierre Henri Gabriel Pailler, born June 3, 1876 in Poitiers and died January 20, 1954 in Triel-sur-Seine, is a renowned French painter, specializing in urban or rural landscapes. A student of Léon Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he also followed lessons from Armand Guillaumin, master of the Crozant school. Unlike his more ambitious contemporaries such as Othon Friesz, Albert Marquet and Raoul Dufy, Pailler adopted a style close to classical impressionism, influenced by Guillaumin. Pailler began exhibiting at the Salon des Indépendants in 1903 with seven landscapes, renewing the experience in 1904. His works mainly feature views of Crozant and the surrounding area of ​​Poitiers, before moving his field of interest to the north of France during his appointment as a drawing teacher in Roubaix, as well as in the south of France during his holidays. Despite his discretion, Pailler manages to assert his own artistic personality, marked by a careful observation of landscapes and seasonal lights. In this painting located in La Rochelle, Henri Pailler chooses to represent one of the last vestiges of the Ferry enclosure. Natural light and color nuances sensitively depict the atmosphere and characteristic architecture of the city. This painting is an invitation to (re)discover La Rochelle through the sharp and poetic gaze of a painter devoted to the beauty of nature and human creations.