Jean PESKÉ

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Jean PESKÉ
PLEASANT TABLE "FOUNTAIN IN A PARK" by Jean PESKÉ (1870-1949) Oil on canvas signed lower left 54 x 65 cm Jan Mirosław Peszke, known as Jean Peské, born on 27 July 1870 in Gault in the Russian Empire and died on 21 March 1949 in Le Mans is a French painter and engraver of Polish origin. Jean Peské studied at the Kiev School of Painting, then at the Odessa School of Fine Arts and the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. Having inherited from his father in 1891, he emigrated to France the same year. He enrolled at the Julian Academy in the workshops of Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin-Constant. He made friends in the Polish circles of the capital where he met the future Marie Curie, with whom he remained linked for a long time, as well as Guillaume Apollinaire. He soon became acquainted with Signac, Pissarro, Bonnard and 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 found his place among the post-impressionists and painted in the open air, notably in Barbizon where he met the painter Constantin Kousnetzoff. From 1895 onwards, Peské exhibited regularly at the Salon des indépendants, the Salon d'automne, and later in the largest galleries. Between the 1920s and 1940s, he became very well known. Between the two wars, he counts John Pope-Hennessy and Llinas among his collectors. He also presented his drawings to Georges Clemenceau, one of his admirers, and the Chalcographie du Louvre bought engravings from him. He paints many landscapes, notably of the Vendée, Brittany, Bormes-les-Mimosas, Collioure, a town where he founded an art museum, the present Musée d'Art Moderne.
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