Quiberon Brittany Oil On Wood Signed Charles Perron (1893-1958). 33x25cm (without Frame)

Biography Charles Perron


Charles Perron, born August 22, 1893 in Plessé (Loire-Atlantique), died April 18, 1958 in Nantes, was a 20th-century French painter.

After his father's death in 1901, he lived in Le Gâvre with his mother (who died in 1931); he passed his brevet in Blain, then trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes (1909-1913), then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1913-1914 and 1919-1921). Between 1914 and 1919, not mobilized for health reasons, he took up a teaching post in Nantes. He was awarded the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1921. In 1926, he was awarded the Eugène-Thirion prize.

From 1936 to 1945, he was curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes; he was a regular resident of Le Gâvre and had a studio there from 1938.

Works
Charles Perron mainly painted landscapes, notably of the Gâvre forest.
He sometimes uses the trompe-l'œil technique.

Most of his works are in private collections; some can be found in museums in Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Guérande and Rennes, as well as in Paris, Cambrai and Tourcoing.

Tributes
Charles Perron's name has been given to a public school in Le Gâvre and to a street in Plessé.

Bibliography
Françoise Michaud-Baranger, Charles Perron 1893-1958, Musées départementaux de Loire-Atlantique, Nantes, 1988. This is the presentation brochure for the Charles Perron exhibition held from December 1988 to February 1989 at the Hôtel du département in Nantes.