Large Pastel 99x77cm By Jean Peské 1870 - 1949 Signed Dated 1909 Portrait Of A Gardener At Work

Large Pastel 99x77cm By Jean Peské 1870 - 1949 signed dated 1909 portrait of a gardener at work - provenance family of the artist, a certificate will be given to the purchaser. several large pastels of the same character are reproduced in the biographical books of the painter. Jan Mirosław Peszke, known as Jean Peské, born July 27, 1870, Gault (uk), district of Ananiv, government of Kherson, Russian Empire and died March 21, 1949 in Le Mans (France) is a French painter and engraver of Polish origin on his father's side and Russian on his mother's side. Jan Mirosław Peszke is the son of the doctor Jean Peské, and Antonina Znamerowska. Jean Peské attended the kyiv School of Painting, then those of the Odessa School of Fine Arts and that of Warsaw. Having inherited from his father in 1891, he emigrated to France the same year. He enrolled at the Académie Julian in the studios of Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin-Constant. He made friends in Polish circles in the capital, where he met the future Marie Curie, with whom he remained close for a long time, as well as Guillaume Apollinaire. He quickly came into contact with Signac, Pissarro, Bonnard, and Vuillard. Under Signac's influence, he experimented with pointillism. He also frequented the Nabis group between 1895 and 1900, and exhibited at Le Barc de Boutteville with Sérusier, Bonnard, and Vuillard. From 1900, he found his place among the post-impressionists and painted outdoors, particularly in Barbizon, where he met the painter Constantin Kousnetzoff. Peské exhibited regularly from 1895 at the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon d'Automne, and subsequently in the greatest galleries. In 1901, he married Catherine Louchnikoff in Paris. He achieved great fame between the 1920s and 1940s. Between the two wars, his collectors included John Pope-Hennessy and Llinas Qui. He also presented his drawings to Georges Clemenceau, one of his admirers, and the Chalcographie du Louvre bought his engravings. He painted many landscapes, notably of Vendée, Brittany, Bormes-les-Mimosas, Collioure, the town where he founded an art museum4, the current Musée d'Art Moderne. Initially influenced by Claude Monet, he later adopted a more personal style and excelled in landscapes, inspired in particular by his stays in the forest of Fontainebleau and on the Mediterranean coast.