Countryside Landscape In Normandy (etretat) - Oil On Canvas Signed Jean-pierre Stauffer

Oil on canvas, signed lower right, by Jean-Pierre Stauffer (1927-1994), depicting a Normandy countryside landscape. Titled "The Linden Tree" on the reverse and located in Étretat (a French commune in the Seine-Maritime department of the Normandy region. This town lies north of Le Havre on the English Channel coast, on the Alabaster Coast, which is part of the Pays de Caux). Visible dimensions: 27 x 16 cm. Jean-Pierre Stauffer was born in 1927 and died in 1994. He was a painter of the Swiss school. He studied in Lausanne and apprenticed as a graphic lithographer in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the city where he studied at the School of Fine Arts. A talented graphic designer, he worked until 1970, when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting. He left Switzerland to settle in the Orange region of Provence in 1972. He married a Provençal woman, Anne-Marie. He remained there until 1981, the year he returned to Switzerland. He then resided in his house in La Sarraz, called Les Dailles, which provided a beautiful setting for his paintings, showcased in this restored old farmhouse, filled with furniture patinated by time. During his time in France, he exhibited at 13 rue du Mont Cenis, and the Roussard Gallery organized an exhibition for him almost every year. His painting is calm and serene; he favors horizontal lines, and his palette is limited, primarily composed of ochres and muted tones. His landscapes are rarely inhabited, and details are relegated to the background, the foreground being occupied by broad swathes of color in shades of the same color, without significant variations, but with contrasts. In 1985, solo exhibition at the A. Roussard Gallery in New York (57 E 57th Street). Also exhibited at Valloton in Lausanne.