Léonce Pelletier (1869-1950) Still Life With Fruit

Still Life with Fruit,
Oil on canvas,
Signed lower right, 60 x 50 cm (excluding frame),
Silvered wood frame.

The painter offers us a beautiful composition highlighting each object around a white ceramic bowl laden with fruit ready to be eaten. We can also observe the turquoise blue Chinese porcelain and a magnificent beer mug. Born in Pouilly-sur-Saône in 1869,

Léonce Pelletier was a Post-Impressionist painter trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon and in the studio of Gustave Moreau in Paris, where he met Henri Matisse. He was for a time a drawing teacher at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Nice. Léonce Pelletier painted landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes. His canvases are regularly sold at auction.