Pierre Le Trividic (1898-1960) Animated Street In Rouen

Large oil painting on panel Art Deco period. School of Rouen signed lower right Pierre Le Trividic 1927 Rare and interesting fauvist composition depicting a street in a lively district of Rouen (inscription on the back partially erased). Good general condition, dimensions: 82 cm X 72 cm / at sight 65 cm X 55 cm. Post-impressionist painter of the Rouen School. Born in Rouen on April 12, 1898, Pierre Le Trividic took classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the architecture section. A brilliant student, he rapidly accumulated first prizes in all disciplines. It is therefore as an architect that he settles but at the same time, he devotes himself to his passion for drawing and painting. He exhibits regularly. The Museum of Fine Arts and the State acquire his works. Chronicler is the term that best defines Peter The Trividic. His work is indeed nothing more than a story of Rouen, a daily history, established day by day. A tireless observer of this city of ancient nobility, resonant already with modernity, the Trividic has translated with an expressive hand the atmosphere of its vaulted streets to Gothic buildings, the incessant activity of its port and its sailors animating the estaminets . As many motifs as he captures, with an eye both tender and amused, authentic and human and recomposes, with humility and passion, to prepare his life, as an architect preparing plans for a construction, depending on realities of the place. To walk and sketch the streets, in search of some architectural truth, communicates to Le Trividic the passion of the line and the color, the drawing then the painting. Pencil, pastel, oil, watercolor, ink, engraving, blood are at once his surest means of expression of this unalterable passion he feels for his hometown. It is undeniably in the least fixed forms of expression that he excels. His talent and fantasy are revealed in the movement, and this is what earned him the nickname "Toulouse-Lautrec of Normandy". The artist is complete, the work of an extraordinary abundance that is matched only by his freedom of execution. At the picturesque sites of Rouen which he seizes with passion on the paper, with the moving atmospheres of which he feels softened on the canvas with lyricism, are added by thousands pochades and sketches, sensible evocations of which one perceives at random his glance. His perfect knowledge of drawing, his sense of composition and layout, his free interpretation, spiritual and sincere, hold, at each of his exhibitions, the attention of the public. His first canvases solidly built, beautifully painted and high in color, quickly succeed a firmer technique. His qualities are concentrated. The Trividic simplifies, summarizes, synthesizes and each of his works, brilliantly removed, gains in expressive power. Draftsman for The Dispatch of Rouen and Illustrated Normandy, Le Trividic also begins, in the 30s, a career of illustrator that he will pursue until the end of his life (The Best Tales of A. Allais, Wild Tales , Fervent Tales, The Green Wizard of J. de La Varende, Brittany Castles of F. Le Roy). Highly sought after in his city, the artist does not leave Rouen, so to speak, after the war, he will not stop to continue to image his city, partly devastated but almost completely disappear. And because his gifts are decidedly multiple, he executed stained glass windows in the chapel of the Dieppe hospital, the painted decoration of the Le Rouennais freighter, the walls of the Gambetta pool and was entrusted with the configuration of a French garden. for the park of the city of Oissel. Today, no study on Rouen between the wars and the 1950s can ignore the precious, precise and living testimony of the work of Pierre Le Trividic the chronicler.