The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration and foxing.
11.8 x 16.3cm (4.6" x 6.4")Framed Size: 2.5 x 28.5cm (1" x 11.2")
Pierre Adolphe Valette (13 October 1876 – 18 April 1942) was a French Impressionist painter. His most acclaimed paintings are urban landscapes of Manchester, now in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery. Today, he is chiefly remembered as L. S. Lowry's tutor.
Born in Saint-Étienne in eastern central France, on 13 October 1876, he trained at the Ecole Municipale de Beaux-Arts et des Arts Decoratifs in Bordeaux. Valette arrived in England for unknown reasons in 1904 and studied at the Birkbeck Institute, now part of the University of London. In 1905 he travelled to the North West of England where he designed greetings cards and calendars for a Manchester printing company. He attended evening classes at Manchester Municipal School of Art and in 1907 he was invited to join the staff as a teacher.
Salford painter L. S. Lowry became a pupil of Valette, and expressed great admiration for his tutor, who taught him new techniques and showed him the potential of the urban landscape as a subject. He called him "a real teacher ... a dedicated teacher" and added: "I cannot overestimate the effect on me of the coming into this drab city of Adolphe Valette, full of French impressionists, aware of everything that was going on in Paris."
| SKU | rq294 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Attrib Pierre Adolphe Valette (1876-1942) |
| Date | Early 20th Century |
| Dimensions | 11.8 x 16.3cm |
| Medium | Etching |
| Subject | Landscape |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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