Brittany Manège Bigoudènes - Pretty Gouache Pierre Baudrier 1884 1964 - Signed Dated 1920

In Brittany "Tournez Manège" Bigoudènes In 1920 - Pretty Gouache and watercolor by Pierre Baudrier 1884 1964 - Signed Dated 1920 dimensions excluding frame. under glass 30 x 23 cm Pierre Jean Baptiste BAUDRIER (Chantenay-sur-Loire, July 16, 1884-1964) Renowned painter and architect from Nantes, friend of René Pinard He was a member of the Society of Architects of Nantes", explains Philippe Joëssel. "It was traditional for the portrait of deceased colleagues, painting or photograph, to be displayed in the meeting room of the premises on rue Kervégan". Philippe Joëssel met Pierre Baudrier (1884-1964) "at the beginning of the Occupation". He himself was only about ten years old. He then took his first drawing lessons. "The shortage of paper made him use butcher's paper. He would staple a large sheet of paper to a drawing board placed on an easel and begin by placing two crosses very far apart; the student would join these two crosses with a single line. Then we would start the application again, making it more complicated..." Thus, little by little, "my line became firmer: this was very useful to me in the exercise of my profession as an architect to draw without T or squares. Then, he began to learn notions of perspective based on the study of Nantes monuments: living on Rue Marceau, the first monument was naturally the old Palais de Justice. These lessons lasted the year of my seventh grade (1940-41). In secondary school, the drawing lessons of Abbé Bouchaud used other methods." Wink! One of his favorite distractions was to get on the tram and, if possible, sit in front of a pretty lady. He would then take a handkerchief out of his pocket, "wipe his right eye, remove a glass eye that he conscientiously cleaned while the socket seemed hollow with a perfect illusion, then put his eye back in and everything seemed to be back to normal. The traveler looked at the poor man with pity. But pity quickly turned into worry and horror when after the next stop, he started his antics again with the other eye. Terrified, the traveler would hastily change places." The construction of the Hôtel-Dieu Philippe Joëssel would meet Baudrier again in October 1949 "to learn about rendering in charcoal" in order to enter the Beaux-Arts. "He would give me a theme, a simple ball, a plaster bust and tell me: "The light has to turn." These lessons lasted until the start of the school year. Pierre Baudrier then settled in opposite the Saint-Nicolas church. At the time, the reconstruction work on the Hôtel-Dieu was in full swing. It "began with the driving of 2,200 reinforced concrete piles 27 metres long to reach the rock, a driving that was to last 18 months". Their effect was felt even in Pierre Baudrier. "He showed me a statuette placed on the cornice of a cupboard and said to me: "You see, in the morning I put it on the right of the cupboard, in the evening I find it on the left!" "Little Pierre" Marcel Philippi, from Nantes, also remembers Pierre Baudrier in the 1950s. "At that time my father, who was a building contractor, worked as a handyman for this gentleman who, to my mother's great dismay, paid my father each time with a painting. I worked for him in his little house in Batz-sur-Mer, he was a charming man". Pierre Baudrier, "his sister and their employee whom they called "ma petite" came regularly to Champtoceaux", adds Mrs Decombe de Liré (49). "They had a rental in the 1946s. Mr Baudrier made me a portrait, I was 11 years old as well as that of my grandmother from a photo because she had died. Finally, his neighbors and close friends called him P'tit Pierre", underlines J. Cheux, from Croisic. "His sister was a shorthand typing teacher. He lived with her in an apartment near a furrier, Mr André Rémond, not far from Place Félix-Fournier, opposite the Café du Passage. He was a real Nantes figure. We knew him well, being myself with my husband, rue de la Fosse at the Bouille hat shop. He was from the generation of the painters Messrs Edmond Bertreux and Charles Perron". Two other figures from the Pays nantais. SP Presse-Océan