Jean Peské Peasant With A Shovel Oil On Paper 1908 Russian Polish Painter

Jean Peské (1870-1949)

Man with a shovel

Beautiful oil on paper laminated on cardboard, signature lower left "Peské" and dated 1908.

dimensions:
sheet: 19.4 x 19.7 cm

Jean Peské follows the courses of the school of painters in kyiv, then those of the school of fine arts in Odessa and that of Warsaw.
He then enrolled in France at the Académie Julian in the workshops of Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin-Constant. he quickly came into contact with Signac, Pissarro, Bonnard, Vuillard.
Under the influence of Signac, he experimented with pointillism. He also frequented the Nabis group, between 1895 and 1900, and exhibited at Le Barc de Boutteville with Sérusier, Bonnard and Vuillard. From 1900, he finds his place among the post-impressionists and paints in the open air.