Dimensions: 46.5 x 54.5 cm
Signed lower left: 'Peské.'
On the reverse: a paper inventory label with a description of the painting, auction labels, and numerous notes
Provenance
Private collection, France
Millon Auction House, December 2020
Private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Jean Peské. Dialogue de deux cultures, National Museum in Kyiv, September 9–28, 2011
Bibliography
Jean Peské. Dialogue de deux cultures, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Kyiv, Kyiv 2011, p. 129 (ill.)
Biography
He initially studied at the Nikolai Muraszko School of Painting in Kyiv, and then, from 1886 to 1889, at the Odessa School of Fine Arts. In 1890, he became a student of Wojciech Gerson in Warsaw. In 1891, he left for Paris, where he continued his studies at the Académie Julian under the guidance of Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. From 1894 onward, he participated in exhibitions at the Paris Salons: the Salon des Indépendants, the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and the Tuileries Salon. He actively participated in the artistic life of Paris and maintained close ties with his homeland, where he exhibited at the Zachęta in Warsaw (1892) and at the TPSP in Lviv (1900) and Kraków (1910). He also participated in an exhibition of Polish art at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1921. He regularly traveled to the south of France for plein air painting, including to Bormes, where he maintained his own studio until 1926, and to Collioure, where he founded a museum of contemporary French art (which currently operates as an institution bearing his name and houses a collection of his works). He painted genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in a style closely related to that of the Nabis and Post-Impressionists.
