Louis Peyré Portrait Pianist Music Piano Interior Scene XX Rt521 *

Oil on canvas representing a woman playing the piano.
Titled on the back ''At the piano''.
Signed lower right L Peyré
Dated on the back 1981
It is an intimate and touching genre scene, with warm tones bathed in light.
The touch is talented, lively and controlled.
Condition: Good condition, normal wear on the frame.
Dimensions with frame: 92 x 72.5 cm
Dimensions without: 81 x 60 cm
Weight: 2.860kg

Biography: Louis Peyré is a figurative painter close to the Paris New School movement of the 1950s.
He was born in 1923 in Campagnan, a village in the Hérault near Montpellier and Sète.
From the age of nine, his education took place in Ardouane, in the Orb valley, with the Lazarist fathers.
At eighteen he entered the Novitiate at Prime Combe.
During the Second World War, he joined the French Army of Liberation and took part in the Alsace campaign.
It was then that he decided to break with his religious vocation.
His passion for painting then becomes his choice of life.
From 1945 to 1947, his artistic training was at the Beaux Arts in Montpellier.
After his marriage in 1950, he moved to Paris. He follows the courses of the city of Paris (Montparnasse school and school of the Place des Vosges) in drawing, painting, engraving and sculpture.
He also studied the living model at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under the direction of the painter Yves Brayer
During his long life, centered on his wife and children, he painted and drew daily, in Paris or in the south.
He died in 2012 in Sète, where he had been living for several years.
He left an important and varied body of work that expresses the spirituality of everyday life and its beauty.

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