Dip Net Fishermen ( 1973 )

CHEVOLLEAU, Jean

born November 18, 1924, in La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée, France; 1945–1950, École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under Souverbie* and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière*, under Friesz*;

1948–1960, taught in Paris; 1996, died on November 1 in La Roche-sur-Yon. Painter.

A long-standing commitment to a particular technique: vivid splashes of color, dominated by blue, rendered in geometric forms and juxtaposed with bursts of yellow and red; light emerges from the lightening of tones. The figurative element is there, lost in the proliferation of patches and the shimmering of colors, further disrupted by the fact that a single motif is arbitrarily segmented into different colors, solely to serve the flickering effect. His rare portraits employ the same technique, but in a more concentrated form; they stem from Villon* without the softening gradients and pastel colors intervening. Most of his canvases are devoted to landscape, still life, and the nude. He belongs to a post-Cubist movement, though he rejects its palette in favor of colors that sing and please.

Exhibitions: 1950, 1956, Reno Bistro, Puteaux (P); 1957, Bowink Los Angeles (P); 1961, 1981, Camille Renault, Paris (P); 1991, Jean-Paul Villain, Paris (P).

RETROSPECTIVE: 2000, City Hall of the 15th arrondissement, Paris.

Oil

from L'Aiguillon, 1973

Oil on canvas signed lower right and titled
"Pêcheurs aux Haveneaux" (Fishermen at Les Haveneaux), located near L'Aiguillon, dated 1973 and countersigned on the back.

Dimensions: 89 x 116 cm
with original gilded frame in its current condition
: 91 x 118 cm