Jean-rené Truffier (1905-1982) The Island In Toulon - Périgueux Dordogne

Jean-René TRUFFIER
(Nontron 1905 – Chancelade 1982)
L'Isle au Toulon in Périgueux
Oil on canvas
H. 38 cm; W. 55 cm
Signed lower right - 1965

Provenance: Private collection, Périgueux

Born in the north of the department at the beginning of the 20th century, Jean-René Truffier went to study at Sainte Foy la Grande in Gironde and in Périgueux. He then moved to Angers where he entered the School of Arts and Crafts. A career engineer, he always practiced the arts. A poet until his last days, a talented musician (he was notably first violin at the Algiers Opera in 1928 during the Saint-Saëns Festival) and of course a painter. A member of the French Artists Association since 1966, he exhibited at the Paris Salon from the 1930s until the month of his death in 1982. In Paris, he exhibited on the famous walls of the Bernheim and Cambacérès galleries. Numerous solo exhibitions were also organized in Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Biarritz, and Périgueux. He spent the last years of his life, from 1965 onward, in Chancelade, creating small, bright, and colorful landscapes of the surrounding area and publishing several collections of poetry.

It was in 1965 that Truffier created this rare view of the Isle from the Toulon district. It was taken from the road to Angoulême, on the border between Périgueux and Chancelade. As is often the case, Truffier uses his pastel colors.