Light Effect In Brière By Ferdinand Loyen Du Puigaudeau - Brittany

Colored pencil and watercolor, studio stamp bottom left. Old fold visible in the middle of the drawing. Dimensions without frame on sight 49 x 64 cm, with frame 70 x 85 cm.

Under Fernand du Puigaudeau's delicate brushwork, a boat slumbers on the calm waters of La Brière, enveloped in an almost whispered morning light. In this economy of means, the artist reveals a poetic eye, sensitive to the secret dialogue between water and sky. The evanescent light barely seems to touch the paper, like a shiver. The sketch is not an end, but a beginning, a window half-opened onto the world of a painter who, in the ephemeral, captures eternity.

Ferdinand Loyen Du Puigaudeau (1864-1930) comes from an old Breton family and is the cousin of Chateaubriand. He is part of the generation of artists who came after Impressionism. The Pont-Aven school is certainly decisive in the work of this painter, notably through his direct relationship with Gauguin. It remains nonetheless that his pictorial approach remains very personal, his taste for independence and his temperament preventing him from being a simple admirer. Throughout his life, he was inspired by certain themes that were his own, particularly night scenes and light scenes such as fireworks, carousels but also village festivals, peasants in the moonlight, seascapes at dawn, marshes... A friend of Gauguin, exhibited by Durand Rueil, a major Parisian gallery owner, bought by Degas, many great names in art recognized the talent of this painter. He is, without a doubt, in the tradition of the Flemish and French masters of the 17th century such as Aart Van Der Neer or Georges de La Tour, who were inspired by the strength and beauty of night lighting...