Jean Levasseur (1935 - 2024): Storm In The Bay Of Somme

Jean LEVASSEUR (1935 - 2024) Storm in the Bay of Somme Oil on canvas Dimensions of the painting: 60 x 73 cm Signed lower right Titled and signed on the back. Painting in perfect condition, without frame. Sold with invoice and certificate of authenticity. Fast and careful shipping with insurance. Jean LEVASSEUR (1935 - 2024) The formal contradiction in the painting of Jean Levasseur, painter from Caux, lies between the sincerity of the image evoked and what can be sensed through these tormented skies, these transparencies in these pastes so rich that they seem to overflow the traced line, these visions bursting with color and life which nevertheless seem to melt into a fleeting horizon. There are two mysteries in every work of art, said Paul Valéry, "the first is sensitivity, the second is memory". Jean Levasseur, outside of any pictorial tendency or coterie, achieves a remarkable balance between them, between the real, vital for an artist such as him so rooted in his Caux land, and the imaginary that he carries within him like a light. This is why the landscapes glimpsed, through the open windows that are His paintings seem so familiar, so restful, and, beyond their expressive force, leave you with a feeling of ineffable happiness. Alexandre Vernon