Jean Chaleyé, Flowers In A Green Vase (Circa 1920)
Lyon, France
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Item details
Height
60.0 cm
Width
81.0 cm
Wear conditions
Good
Wear conditions
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May show slight traces of use in keeping with age. Most vintage and antique items fit into this condition.
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Description
JEAN CHALEYÉ (1878 Saint-Étienne - 1960 Le Puy-en-Velay)
Flowers in a green vase
Oil on board
60 x 81 cm (78.5 x 100.5 cm, with frame)
Signed lower left: J Chaleyé
Jean Chaleyé was one of the most important textile designers and flower painters in France in the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Saint-Étienne, an industrial city situated 60 km to the southwest of Lyon. Although known as Lyon’s sister city, Saint-Étienne is culturally quite distinct and there has always been a fierce rivalry between the two. Chaleyé studied first at the School of Industrial Arts in Saint-Étienne before winning a scholarship to study at the Lyon School of Fine Arts and its highly regarded ‘Flower Class’. The ‘Classe de fleurs’ at the Lyon Art School emerged out of the need to form talented flower designers for the important silk industry in the city. After three years in Lyon, Chaleyé won the Prix de Paris which provided him with a grant for further study in Paris, and he entered both the Paris School of the Decorative Arts and the Paris School of the Fine Arts, effectively following a twin path as an industrial designer and as a fine artist. Towards the end of his time at art school in Paris he was recruited by the French government to oversee reform and to improve design in the French lace industry. To this end, Chaleyé relocated to Le Puy-en-Velay, a beautiful and ancient town deep in the centre of France which had an established if ailing lace industry. Le Puy was also only 80 km south along the Loire River from Saint-Étienne (just over an hour on the train), so in a way Chaleyé was back home. For the next forty years he represented the French lace industry in many national and international exhibitions and trade fairs. Throughout, he remained dedicated to painting in oils, mainly still-lives of flowers and landscapes, and he exhibited regularly at Salon exhibitions in Saint-Étienne, Lyon and Paris. The Crozatier Museum (a great museum well worth visiting) in Le Puy has many still-lives by Chaleyé in their collection. On the surface there can seem a huge difference between a naturalistic and colourful still life of flowers and the more abstract repeating patterns of lace design, but what the ‘Flower Class’ at the Lyon School of Fine Arts highlighted was that the talent and the skill to draw and paint flowers was the foundation of good textile design. Chaleyé was, above all else, a brilliant flower painter. The green vase in this still life with a handle and a little spout is actually a traditional water jug known as a gargoulette. It is always nice to see pair of secateurs - the tools of the trade - in a still life of a flower arrangement.
Additional dimensions information:
Frame: 78.5 x 100.5 cm
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