Jean-rené Truffier (1905-1982) The Church Of The City - Périgueux Dordogne

Jean-René TRUFFIER
(Nontron 1905 – Chancelade 1982)
Périgueux, the church of the City
Oil on panel
H. 27 cm; L. 22 cm
Signed lower right - 1955

Provenance: Private collection, Périgueux

Born in the north of the department at the beginning of the 20th century, Jean-René Truffier went to study in Sainte Foy la Grande in Gironde and in 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 concertmaster at the Algiers Opera in 1928 during the Saint-Saëns Festival) and of course painter. Member of the 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 on the famous walls of the Bernheim and Cambacérès galleries. Numerous personal exhibitions were also organized in Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Biarritz and Périgueux. He spent the last years of his life, from 1965, in Chancelade, creating small, bright and colorful landscapes of the surrounding area and publishing several collections of poetry.

Our subject is extremely rare and the way of presenting it even more so. Who goes to such colors, to such a movement to represent the oldest church in Périgueux, and especially its first cathedral?! Truffier creates here a quite magical work that thrills the viewer.