Jean-rené Truffier (1905-1982) Summer Walk With The Painter In Chancelade Périgueux Dordogne

Jean-René TRUFFIER
(Nontron 1905 – Chancelade 1982)
Summer walk in Chancelade with the painter
Oil on canvas
H. 27 cm; L. 35 cm
Signed lower right - 1977

Provenance: Private collection, Périgueux

Born in the north of the department at the beginning of the 20th century, Jean-René Truffier left to study in Sainte Foy la Grande in Gironde and in Périgueux. He then went to Angers where he entered the School of Arts and Crafts. A career engineer, he will always practice the arts. Poet until his last days, talented musician (he was notably first violin at the Algiers Opera in 1928 during the Saint-Saëns Festival) and of course painter. Associate of French Artists since 1966, he exhibited at the Paris Salon since the 1930s and until the very month of his death in 1982. In Paris, he was exhibited at the famous picture rails of the Bernheim and Cambacérès galleries. Numerous personal exhibitions were also organized in Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Biarritz and even Périgueux. He will spend the last years of his life, from 1965, in Chancelade, creating small bright and colorful landscapes of the surroundings and publishing a few collections of poetry.

It is precisely in the park of this property of Chancelade called "la Maison Carrée" that this picadi is realized. A small path emerges from the woods adorned with beautiful summer colors. Two characters, certainly children, take a walk in this family setting.