Pierre Parot (1894–1979), *saint Léger La Montagne*, 1948, Limousin. Bichet, Limoges; Jouhaud Crozant

A very rare and magnificent oil on canvas by Pierre Parot depicting a Limousin landscape in Saint-Léger-la-Montagne in 1948, signed with the artist’s monogram and dated in the lower right corner, and located and dated on the back in the artist’s own hand.
Dimensions of the painting alone (without frame): 38x46 cm.
In perfect original condition, delivered in its period frame.
Authenticity guaranteed.

This is therefore an extremely rare painting by Pierre Parot, a lovely post-Impressionist composition with Fauvist tendencies from 1948; here, he depicts a Limousin landscape, more specifically in Saint-Léger-la-Montagne in the Monts d’Ambazac. Parot employed his definitive brushwork and color palette here, creating a powerful effect through broad areas of flat color and highly contrasting tones, with ferns in the foreground rendered in shades of orange, mauve, and pink, followed by a monochrome palette of grays and greens, as well as blues, white, and so on...A highly accomplished work by someone I consider one of the finest Post-Impressionist painters from the Limousin region, alongside Bichet, Jouhaud, Alluaud, and Paguenaud.
Yet on paper, he is not the best known; on the contrary, he is virtually unknown unless one lives in Limoges. This seems quite incredible given his pedigree and the quality of his work. Nevertheless, art lovers know a good thing when they see it when rare works come up for sale—as evidenced by an oil painting that sold for over €3,000 at Drouot a few years ago, or another that sold for over €1,000 a few weeks ago (see last photo).
Pierre Parot, born in Condat-sur-Vienne, in Haute-Vienne, on July 27, 1894, and died in Champagnac-de-Belair, in Dordogne, on June 13, 1979, was a French painter and master glassmaker.
Pierre Parot studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Limoges from 1909 to 1914 under the guidance of Charles Bichet, who would be a major source of inspiration for him. In 1912, Francis Chigot hired him as a draftsman in his stained-glass studio and later appointed him artistic director from 1919 to 1938. He was also very close to Léon Jouhaud; they would regularly go out together to paint from nature, as evidenced by this photo taken in Tarnac, Corrèze, in 1929 (see the second-to-last image, accompanied by an exhibition catalog on Parot)
In his profession as a master glassmaker, Parot won prestigious awards (in Paris, grand prizes for his stained-glass works in 1925 at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, in 1931 at the International Colonial Exhibition, and in 1937 at the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques Applied to Modern Life)
^{Alongside his work with glass, Parot exhibited from 1920 to 1948 a series of paintings, most of which were unsigned. Between 1928 and 1930, the artist painted landscapes of Corrèze and then participated in the exhibition “Le Limousin vu par les artistes” at the Bûcheron gallery in Paris. Throughout 1950, he made numerous trips to the south of France.His favorite subjects were landscapes, particularly those of the Limousin region; for example, he painted landscapes of the Bugeat region, such as the painting “Moulin à Tarnac,” which dates from 1929
Pierre Parot taught art drawing at the Ecole Nationale Professionnelle de Limoges from 1940 to 1961; he is remembered as an effective teacher}