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Pierre Adolphe Valette
French Impressionist painter
Pierre Adolphe Valette (13 October &#; 18 April ) was a French Impressionist painter who spent most of his career in England. His most acclaimed paintings are urban landscapes of Manchester, now in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery.
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Life and career
Born in Saint-Étienne in eastern central France, on 13 October ,[2] he trained at the Ecole Municipale de Beaux-Arts et des Arts Decoratifs in Bordeaux. Valette arrived in England for unknown reasons in and studied at the Birkbeck Institute, now part of the University of London.
In he travelled to the North West of England where he designed greetings cards and calendars for a Manchester printing company. He attended evening classes at Manchester Municipal School of Art and in he was invited to join the staff as a teacher.[3]
Salford painter L. S. Lowry became a pupil of Valette, and expressed great admiration for his tutor, who taught him new techniques and showed him the potential of the urban landscape as a subject.
He called him "a real teacher a dedicated teacher" and added: "I cannot over-estimate the effect on me of the coming into this drab city of Adolphe Valette, full of French impressionists, aware of everything that was going on in Paris".[1]
In Valette resigned from the Institute owing to ill health.
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A series of fourteen drawings by Valette, mounted between glass as lantern slides, were used by his second wife to give a lecture in , at Manchester University, about winemaking in Beaujolais.[4]
Valette's paintings are Impressionist.
Manchester Art Gallery has a room devoted to him, where the viewer may compare some of his paintings with some of Lowry's, and judge to what extent Lowry's own style was influenced by him and by French Impressionism generally.[3][5]
The Lowry hosted an exhibition of about works by Valette, alongside works by Lowry, between October and January It included paintings of Manchester from Manchester Art Gallery and loans from private owners.[6]
Legacy
There is a commemorative blue plaque to Valette, located on the site on Manchester School of Art on Grosvenor Street, in Manchester, inscribed: Adolphe Valette (–), French painter and teacher in the School of Art –.[7]
Gallery
References
Notes
- ^ abMark Brown "Exhibition for 'Monet of Manchester' who inspired Lowry", The Guardian, 14 October
- ^Martin, Sandra ().
Adolphe Valette: a French influence in Manchester.
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- ^ abcAdolphe Valette A French Painter in Manchester(PDF), Manchester Art Gallery, archived from the original(PDF) on 5 July , retrieved 21 October
- ^TrentArtGallery (7 September ).
"We have recently acquired & now have for sale the most astonishing collection of Adolphe Valette drawings on Japanese paper. The set comprises of 14 ink drawings depicting the wine making process in the Beaujolais region of France and the drawings formed the basis of a presentation that Valette's 2nd wife gave at Manchester University at Christmas Each of drawings measure 80mm x 80mm and are sandwiched in glass as they were shown via a Lantern Show.
We also have an original catalogue to accompany the drawings that details the various processes undertaken in the region. This is an incredibly rare and important collection with each of the drawings being of the highest standard.
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- ^In pictures: Adolphe Valette, , 14 October , retrieved 21 October
- ^Brown, Mark (14 October ), "Exhibition for 'Monet of Manchester' who inspired Lowry", The Guardian, London, retrieved 4 March
- ^"Adolphe Valette blue plaque in Manchester".
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Further reading
- Celia Lyon, (tr. Paul Ratcliffe), Adolphe Valette, Phillimore & Co Ltd (), ISBN&#;
- Valette and the Post-Impressionists in "The Northern School: A Reappraisal", Martin Regan , ISBN&#;