Jean Chaleye 1878-1960. Still Life Carnations & Marigolds. Oil On Board.

Jean Chaleye. 
French ( b.1878 - d.1960 ).
Still life of Carnations & Marigolds
Oil on Board. Signed.
Image size 20.9 inches x 25.2 inches ( 53cm x 64cm ).
Frame size 27.6 inches x 31.9 inches ( 70cm x 81cm ).

Available for sale from Big Sky Fine Art in the English county of Dorset, this original oil painting is by the French post-impressionist artist Jean Chaleye.
The painting is presented and supplied in a later 20th century elaborate frame (which is shown in these photographs). 
This antique painting is in very good condition, defying its age and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The painting is signed lower right.

Jean Chaleye was considered one of the most important French post-impressionist artists. He trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon, then at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He began his career as a commercial engraver then worked for a while in the textile industry where flower painting had developed as an important discipline and was used decoratively in the manufacture of silk. Along with a group of other artists he began to paint flowers in a new fashion, rendering them light and transparent and full of grace. His still life paintings of flowers, which he continued to paint throughout his life, are among his very best works. In 1902 Jean Chaleye took part in the prestigious Fair of French Artists and subsequently exhibited widely, including a retrospective at the Organerie Du Luxemburg, Paris and the Wally Findlay Gallery in New York. In 1953 the city of Marseille held a jubilee exhibition to celebrate his then fifty-year career.

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