Jules René Hervé (1887-1981) Oil On Canvas Signed

Oil on canvas by Jules René Hervé (1887 - 1981) representing a scene of Parisian life animated by many characters at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Signed lower left the dimensions of this oil on canvas frame included: 64 x 56 centimeters

Biography:

Jules René Hervé (1887-1981) is a painter considered to be the last French impressionist. He is best known for his paintings depicting scenes of Parisian life bathed in light.

Born in 1887 in Langres, Jules René Hervé began his artistic studies in an evening school in his home town. As far back as he can remember, he always wanted to become a talented artist in order to be able to express through color the beauty of everything he saw.
In Paris, he continued his artistic studies at the School of Decorative Arts and then at the School of Fine Arts. He exhibited his works for the first time at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1910. He was one of the most important members of this group.
After obtaining his diploma, he taught painting from 1911 to 1943 to many generations of young artists. In 1914, he received a first silver medal from the Association of French Artists.
Indifferent to fashions and trends from the outside, he never ceased to deepen the technical secrets of his art, and after 50 years of artistic experience, he arrived at a perfect mastery of the science of this art which absorbs it.
Jules René Hervé is a painter of everyday life, he represents vacant characters in their daily tasks and scenes of Parisian life. He interprets them with great sensitivity, putting all his heart into his work. All his artistic sensitivity is ensured by light and color. Paris seen by Jules René Hervé is a poetic city full of light without trying to represent an ideal Paris but the real city. Not only is he a painter of great talent, but he represents the purest tradition of French art. He paints just like the great impressionists of the past, and plays with his colors like a musician on his musical instrument. He obtains in each of his works a marvelous harmony of colors and light.

His paintings are now kept in many museums in France, the Petit Palais in Paris, Langres, Dijon, Saint-Etienne, Tourcoing, Annecy and abroad, at the Chicago Museum and in Casablanca. His paintings are now sought after by many amateurs in France and abroad where he met with great success during his lifetime. Everyone is seduced by its light and its colors as well as by its Parisian scenes full of charm.