Jacques Pellegrin (1944-2021), Paysage Provençal, Acrylic On Paper, Signed,

A painter of the Nouvelle figuration movement, Jacques Pellegrin began painting at the age of eight. At the age of eleven, he was awarded first prize by the city of Aix-en-Provence. At first, his style resembled the classical realist movement, then he discovered Impressionism, whose influence lasted until 1970. After studying to be a translator-interpreter in Munich, he obtained a degree in German in Aix-en-Provence. From 1980 onwards, he devoted himself entirely to painting, studying German Expressionism, and was influenced by French Fauvism and Expressionism with Vincent van Gogh, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Kees van Dongen and Henri Matisse, as well as by the Provençal and Marseilles schools of Auguste Chabaud, Louis-Mathieu Verdilhan and Pierre Ambrogiani. He frequently uses bright, warm colors and underlines his figures with thick, black lines. Each canvas tells a story, an anecdote, a memory. At the same time, firmly anchored in his time, when Jacques Pellegrin evokes the past, he does so not with nostalgia but simply with affection. He is recognized and mentioned in the Bénézit 1999 and 2006.