Olek Teslar (1900-1952): "closed Town, Concarneau"

Olek TESLAR (1900-1952): "Ville closed de Concarneau", oil on canvas board, signed lower right, Size: 33 x 24 cm One of his paintings is preserved: "Concarneau, the old basin" Municipal collection, donation Simone Robin . Oleg Teslar is the first husband of Jeannine Guillou who will become the wife of Nicolas de Stael. Jeannine Guillou is herself a painter, five years older than Nicolas. Breton by origin, from a Concarneau family, she has been married for six years to a Pole, Olek Teslar (1900-1952), whom she met at the Decorative Arts in Nice and from whom she has a son, Antek (Antoine ) 11 who would later become a writer and screenwriter under the pseudonym Antoine Tudal. The Teslar live in southern Morocco in a sort of phalanstery where they offer medicines to the population. The administration made them sign documents relieving France of all responsibility in the event of misfortune. Sort of “hippies before the letter”, the Teslar elegantly separate when Jeannine leaves with Nicolas11.